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idchlife1605yI can never only have code at work. I can’t explain it. I HAVE to work at my own stuff at home. Feels like sucking blood for vampires to keep you alive.
If I don’t code my stuff I go to depro and miserable state.
I like it, it’s interesting and fun.
I prioritize often my personal projects over any kind of work overtime, because I am the master and chooser in my own time, and for gods sake I have all the time I need to develop sane, well tested and no-legacy solutions in my spare time.
I have personal life, actually, not a hermit or something. It’s just my hobbies, and coding is in the center of them - they are part of my life. -
all the free time I can spare I spend on my project. This includes hours after work, nights, weekend evenings/nights, my kid's nap time, etc.
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all the overtime I spend at work I try to exchange for my off-duty hours, rather than cashing it out. So I could spend more time on my own ideas, on my own code -
I try to and want to work on personal projects...but usually after work, family, and other obligations I just dont have the mental capacity left to work on my own stuff.
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theuser48445ySome weekends I will work on side projects. I have other interests I want to kindle as well. People are different
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I have to because being a wage slave will never make me rich when the salaries are so shit; making my own thing is the only hope left.
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Some days i work at my projects, some days i play videogames.
Can't stay doing the shit at work 24/7. I need some break.
At work is just webdev, at home is systems development(studying it since i want to break into that field) database analytics projects and ai projects.
It is also important to use a completely different tech stack. For example, at work is php/node/java/ and the rest of web markups and stylesheets. At home is clojure(mainly) python, rust and C.
Got to keep it interesting. -
I use the time on public transportation to work on my projects. That's 45-50 minutes per trip.
I'd love to do more, but family stuff keeps me busy. -
Lyniven46015yOf course yes. I work from 8am to 6pm everyday then personnal projects until 10pm, then either I play game or continue projects.
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Ederbit7455yFor me it's generally something productive after work. Either coding, watching a conference talk, sports, ...
If your job sucks I recommende doing a really fun and cool personal project you, as you might loose interest in programming if you only code at work. -
I try.... but ends up playing games or sleeping.
It's like I want to do something but when I get time I'm exhausted like hell my mind is not in the state of doing any work related to learning new things.
I used to spent a lot of time on personal projects but now it's shit maybe there is something wrong with my routine which is causing this.
No fucking clue why this is happening.
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