The original post: /r/web_design by /u/pentaclay on 2024-11-15 05:56:38.

Hey Erfan again, working over a decade as a UX/UI designer. At some point in your career, you might notice you are stuck in growth. You need to learn constantly and maintain a work-life balance.

I found in my day job, that my learning phase is limited, I am learning or growing my career in one direction only. There are other sectors of Web and User Experience design that I need to improve.

Knowledge is power and there are a couple of ways to do that. By reading books related to design, user experience, web design elements etc. Or reading articles online. Or doing courses.

There’s no immediate benefit monetary-wise, I know that’s gonna add up sometime later. The main problem was time, when should I do that? After work? Then my work-life balance breaks.

Here’s what I did, and that worked for me incredibly

• I started reading 10-20 pages while I was commuting to work in public transport.

• I started reading 2-4 articles on public transport, before going to lunch, and before going to sleep.

• I started seeing 2-4 course videos by going early to my day job. Also before sleep 1 video, something like this.

I constantly did that for over a year, during weekends I didn’t do much related to work. I tried to enjoy it.

That extra effort after only 2 years made me get a job 3x the salary I was getting at that time. And now after 3 more years, I am getting more than 6x salary.

I started taking courses back in 2018-2019. I had already 5 years of experience back then.

I am making the same kind of effort for my side hassle, which is selling website templates. With only 8 months, the passive income increased 4x.

In the first month, I earned nearly $127 by selling website templates, now after 8 months I earned over $400 this month alone, and still 15 more days left to end this month.

You don’t need to work day and night breaking your work-life balance, need to work constantly and learn constantly.

What did you learn from this?