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Ask HN: How do you spend your evenings?

11 points by haack 11y ago

kelukelugames 11y ago
1. exercise 2. Am I exhausted from my day job? no -> side projects yes -> netflix 3. Read books. 4. Do dishes and other chores. My girlfriend cooks so it frees up a ton of time.
- atmosx 11y ago
  same with minor, irrelevant changes. :-)
- ljk 11y ago
  that sounds pretty fulfilling; how much "evening time" do you have to be able to afford these activities?
  - kelukelugames 11y ago
    I got a new job with a 15 minute commute and free breakfast, lunch and dinner. So if I eat dinner at work then I will be home around 7ish, and go to bed at 11. That leaves enough time to do most things but not everything everyday. I also fart around on the Internet a lot in the mornings but when I am more diligent then I wash dishes and read books before work too.
J_Darnley 11y ago
The same way as I spend my mornings, days, and nights: nothing constructive.
d4rkph1b3r 11y ago
I get home around 7-8. Half of the time I'll cook dinner with my wife, talk about our days as we cook, eat dinner together. Around 8:30 or 9:00 we'll hang out in the living room. If I have energy and am feeling ambitious, or I have to work a bit extra, we will listen to music and I will code (for work, or open source, or side projects), while she reads. This might last until midnight, and then we'll go to bed. I try to read for at least fifteen minutes before bed on a kindle as I wind down. Seems to work well. If I'm too tired to work, we'll watch netflix together. Two nights a week I try to exercise (martial arts classes) and instead of cooking I'll get take out or eat at the local inexpensive Japanese or Mexican restaurant.
magic_beans 11y ago
I get home between 7 and 8pm. Usually my evening goes: 1. Yoga at my neighborhood studio 2. Dinner (eggs and toast with kimchi, maybe sauteed kale if I'm feeling ambitious) 3. Reading time or, if feeling lazy, I listen to a podcast and crochet for a little bit. 4. A small amount of writing (at the very least a journal entry) As you can see... the last thing I want to do when I get home is touch code. But maybe this is why I'm a mediocre developer... Does anyone have any advice as to how I can actually want to code when I get home???
ratfacemcgee 11y ago
world of warcraft and binge watching netflix or hate watching netflix, depending on what I'm in the mood for.
Nadya 11y ago
Get home at around 6pm, stream League of Legends until midnight. Go to bed. Due to donations I can treat it as a poor paying part-time job.
velocitypsycho 11y ago
Get home between 5 and 7 (if I go downtown). Play with my son, eat dinner, clean up some. Bath and bed for the kid, then spending some time with my wife. Then I either do more work, dink around on reddit, or read.
kleer001 11y ago
Pick two to three, repeat until tired. 1. Unnecessary social networking 2. Make music 3. Paint 4. Go for a walk 5. Go out to eat 6. Consume recreational inebriants 7. Watch move/tv show
ankit1911 11y ago
I reach home somewhere around 7. Finish my dinner by 7:30 Fool around for next 30 mins. At 8 I start coding. I am a newbie developer, I have many things to learn before I can work on a project that really matters. So, most of my coding time is spent learning new things like C Socket programming, iOS development, etc

11 points by haack 11y ago

1. exercise 2. Am I exhausted from my day job? no -> side projects yes -> netflix 3. Read books. 4. Do dishes and other chores. My girlfriend cooks so it frees up a ton of time.

atmosx 11y ago
same with minor, irrelevant changes. :-)
ljk 11y ago
that sounds pretty fulfilling; how much "evening time" do you have to be able to afford these activities?
- kelukelugames 11y ago
  I got a new job with a 15 minute commute and free breakfast, lunch and dinner. So if I eat dinner at work then I will be home around 7ish, and go to bed at 11. That leaves enough time to do most things but not everything everyday. I also fart around on the Internet a lot in the mornings but when I am more diligent then I wash dishes and read books before work too.

J_Darnley 11y ago

The same way as I spend my mornings, days, and nights: nothing constructive.

d4rkph1b3r 11y ago

I get home around 7-8. Half of the time I'll cook dinner with my wife, talk about our days as we cook, eat dinner together. Around 8:30 or 9:00 we'll hang out in the living room. If I have energy and am feeling ambitious, or I have to work a bit extra, we will listen to music and I will code (for work, or open source, or side projects), while she reads. This might last until midnight, and then we'll go to bed. I try to read for at least fifteen minutes before bed on a kindle as I wind down. Seems to work well. If I'm too tired to work, we'll watch netflix together. Two nights a week I try to exercise (martial arts classes) and instead of cooking I'll get take out or eat at the local inexpensive Japanese or Mexican restaurant.

magic_beans 11y ago

I get home between 7 and 8pm. Usually my evening goes: 1. Yoga at my neighborhood studio 2. Dinner (eggs and toast with kimchi, maybe sauteed kale if I'm feeling ambitious) 3. Reading time or, if feeling lazy, I listen to a podcast and crochet for a little bit. 4. A small amount of writing (at the very least a journal entry) As you can see... the last thing I want to do when I get home is touch code. But maybe this is why I'm a mediocre developer... Does anyone have any advice as to how I can actually want to code when I get home???

ratfacemcgee 11y ago

world of warcraft and binge watching netflix or hate watching netflix, depending on what I'm in the mood for.

Nadya 11y ago

Get home at around 6pm, stream League of Legends until midnight. Go to bed. Due to donations I can treat it as a poor paying part-time job.

velocitypsycho 11y ago

Get home between 5 and 7 (if I go downtown). Play with my son, eat dinner, clean up some. Bath and bed for the kid, then spending some time with my wife. Then I either do more work, dink around on reddit, or read.

kleer001 11y ago

Pick two to three, repeat until tired. 1. Unnecessary social networking 2. Make music 3. Paint 4. Go for a walk 5. Go out to eat 6. Consume recreational inebriants 7. Watch move/tv show

ankit1911 11y ago

I reach home somewhere around 7. Finish my dinner by 7:30 Fool around for next 30 mins. At 8 I start coding. I am a newbie developer, I have many things to learn before I can work on a project that really matters. So, most of my coding time is spent learning new things like C Socket programming, iOS development, etc