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I think having something else to also do is critical. I'm a musician and I kept 70+ hour weeks in school, but 16 of those hours were at gigs, and Sundays were o
by ArkyBeagle 11y ago
I think having something else to also do is critical. I'm a musician and I kept 70+ hour weeks in school, but 16 of those hours were at gigs, and Sundays were off limits for anything at all - no work at all.
It wasn't gigging but just jamming when I later was in startup land for a few years. I found the effect the same. You need something to get your mind completely off work.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoTo be honest, my current problem is exactly the opposite - I can't get my mind on work. There're always at least three other projects occupying my mind that would be a much better use of my time than the day job except I wouldn't be able to pay my rent with them :(.
- swah 11y agoMaybe just tell us about them.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoOne is a Mars colonization roguelike I'm designing every spare minute I have, the other is half-finished haptic device that only needs me to find the time to design and make a PCB (and solder components I already have), and the third would be a set-up for notifications from various home appliances via processing the noises they make. I have all the hardware for this already in place, but lack the time to code the required DSP.
- insensible 11y agoI recommend the book _Refuse to Choose_ by Barbara Scher. It is about how to use that Edison-like tendency of yours as an asset rather than having to stuff it all the time.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoMaybe the side projects are too close to the day job? That's kind of what was nice about playing music - it was totally different.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIf anything, it would be the job being too close to side projects. I learned programming to build cool things, the career was only a lucky accident for me.