it just seems time is too valuable (after working 9 hours a day and feeling pretty tired) to work on some stupid idea just for fun when you know it will lead to

it just seems time is too valuable (after working 9 hours a day and feeling pretty tired) to work on some stupid idea just for fun when you know it will lead to nothing I've had that before, with an idea that's fun, but not fun enough. I thought maybe I was getting sick of programming. Now I work 9 hours a day, feeling pretty tired, and still go on to work on my idea until 1am or 2am. 3am if I can make it. If you aren't energetic enough to work on an idea for fun after 9 hours of tiring work, the idea isn't fun enough, and not worth quitting full time employment. But on the other hand if despite 9 hour of tiring work, you find yourself working till the wee hours every night working on your idea, perhaps consider maybe there's something interesting in your mind? That's the situation I'm in. I'm planning a year or two without working in a year's time to work on this idea. Not because I have no energy to work on it after 9 hours of work everyday, but because the idea is so interesting to me even after 9 hours of work, I find myself working an additional 6 hours on it. It's on my mind in the shower, on the way to work, at lunch, in afternoon tea break, on the way home, eating dinner, when I am working on it, when I'm in bed, as soon as I wake up. (And I try to resist thinking about it when the director of the company is sitting next to me. I hope he didn't catch me writing this comment. ;)) My ideas were the same ones I've had for the past decade, except I've refined them as time gone by. An idea that was once stupid and won't lead to anywhere, is now an idea I can't take my mind off, an idea, for me, that will lead to everything. Keep living. Look for a new job if you're sick of it. But I don't think you're tired because you don't have time to work on your ideas. I think you're tired because you haven't found or refined your existing ideas to a state where it will be so interesting to you you're working on it even as your eyelids struggle to keep opened. You don't have the time for ideas that aren't that interesting, but when you have an idea that's interesting enough to you, you will find you always manage to find some time for it.