Switching careers while employed: organising 6 hours a week

Most career changes fail not for lack of skill, but for lack of regular time. Six well-placed hours a week beat twenty hours promised on a Sunday and never delivered.

First step: find the slots that already exist, rather than inventing new ones. A 40-minute commute morning and evening is over an hour a day to read a lesson on your phone. A 45-minute lunch break, three times a week, is one more practical exercise. The rest — two quiet, notification-free hours on a Saturday morning — is enough to close out the week.

Second step: accept that a 20-minute lesson is a complete unit, not a fragment. That is exactly why CoursTech lessons are calibrated to that length: they fit inside a real break, with one idea and one graded exercise, without leaving a feeling of half-finished work.

Third step: accept zero-hour weeks without guilt or quitting entirely. A sick child, a heavy deadline at work — it happens. Lifetime access and no expiry exist precisely for this: pick up at the next lesson, don't start over from scratch.

Over a year, 6 hours a week amounts to roughly 280 effective hours once breaks are counted — enough to finish a 90-to-100-hour track with a comfortable margin for revision, or two shorter tracks. It is not fast. It is sustainable, which matters more: the person who finishes at their own pace in ten months is ahead of the one who quits after three weeks of an unsustainable goal.