> The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Well, I still do code as hobby. The thing is writing

> The notion of "programming as a hobby" starts to fade for some once they're doing this professionally. Well, I still do code as hobby. The thing is writing code for company is not always fun, for example, your company use React and you want to try Vue, the only way to do it is create hobby projects of your own. And there are other benefits as well, for example, if your project is useful, it may open new opportunities for you, showcase your abilities, let you make friends and maybe even allow you to directly make money from it. > I find much less motivation to do PC related stuff Me too, sometimes. But personally I usually found the main reason for me to lost motivation is when I realized the project I'm working on is useless -- No body will use it even I released it, so I just stopped working on it. But you know what, some of my abandoned code can be reused when I have new ideas, so I count all of it as sleeping gold (Or maybe sleeping bug, depends on production results :)