In my day job in corporate R&D about 3 or 4 large development projects (in which I have different roles: system architect, integrator, code monkey, dev ops, a b

In my day job in corporate R&D about 3 or 4 large development projects (in which I have different roles: system architect, integrator, code monkey, dev ops, a bit of everything) and always a few smaller "incubator" projects. I love to be able to work on various different topics at the same time, and it's a great way to avoid boredom and ensure high productivity by switching projects a couple of times a day (but not too often, of course!). As far as side projects are concerned, I have 3 major ones that require regular care and about a dozen smaller ones. It's a very similar pattern to my work projects, now that I think about it! I enjoy working on all of them, but here I have more freedoms to leave one project idle for some time, and fully concentrate on one of them. Since all of the side projects are strictly non-commercial, I don't have to worry about what a customer says. I tend to start new side projects quite regularly and with some pride I can say that I have only abandoned very few of them, most are still (after about 20 years) still alive and in use. I hate to be idle :-)