You can't give same advice to everyone, we all have different skills, and life circumstances. If you feel you can't get around the 8-8-8 schema, then realize t

You can't give same advice to everyone, we all have different skills, and life circumstances. If you feel you can't get around the 8-8-8 schema, then realize that those 8 hours at work are way too important to just do random stuff at work. Try to work for someone you admire, that you can learn from, that has "succeed" before, people that know how to build products, in a efficient way. Work on yourself, improving your productivity during working hours, learn from your colleagues. Eventually if you become so knowledgeable, efficient, skilled and confident then Pareto principle is your friend. - Manage to get 20% raise for same hours... - so you that you can work 20% less time and put that to your project. - Find a setup that works for you and your employer, it could be 1 day per week or 2.4 months per year. By unlocking the 20% of the time from working hours you should be able to make 80% progress in your project. Now don´t ask me how you finish that last 20%, that's the next level of struggle :D