I’m a software developer by hobby and professionally. It can be a bit difficult to thread that needle. While it can be quite fun to get into “the zone” and write code for 6 hours straight until 4am multiple times a week, that’s also the quickest way to burnout (and literally sent me to therapy)
One thing I’m trying to do is write a custom todo / daily planner app for my phone. I’m hoping that i can use this to better manage my free time
It’s slow going, as i can only dedicate a handful of hours during the week to personal projects (before i want to yeet myself out the window at the sight of my computer). And weekends are spent playing catchup to sleep, house chores, and other hobbies
It is still fun though. I just have to remind myself to not get into analysis paralysis, and focus on manageable chunks (some days, those chunks are embarrassingly small). I literally just spent an hour or so fighting with C# csproj files to compile Android libraries (my goal was to get notifications working, but it’s almost midnight)
Most important thing is to get good quality sleep, regularly, at the same time of day. Without that, you will slowly lose your sanity, and will not notice until it becomes a problem
Yeah I get that, but goddammit I see some doing it and want to live that life.
Yep. it’s all about work-life balance. Capitalism doesn’t know anything about that.
I’m a software developer by hobby and professionally. It can be a bit difficult to thread that needle. While it can be quite fun to get into “the zone” and write code for 6 hours straight until 4am multiple times a week, that’s also the quickest way to burnout (and literally sent me to therapy)
One thing I’m trying to do is write a custom todo / daily planner app for my phone. I’m hoping that i can use this to better manage my free time
It’s slow going, as i can only dedicate a handful of hours during the week to personal projects (before i want to yeet myself out the window at the sight of my computer). And weekends are spent playing catchup to sleep, house chores, and other hobbies
It is still fun though. I just have to remind myself to not get into analysis paralysis, and focus on manageable chunks (some days, those chunks are embarrassingly small). I literally just spent an hour or so fighting with C# csproj files to compile Android libraries (my goal was to get notifications working, but it’s almost midnight)
Most important thing is to get good quality sleep, regularly, at the same time of day. Without that, you will slowly lose your sanity, and will not notice until it becomes a problem