If you hear your colleagues doing things on the weekend you'd have liked to been doing as well, well, it's not too late to start doing them on the next weekends

If you hear your colleagues doing things on the weekend you'd have liked to been doing as well, well, it's not too late to start doing them on the next weekends. If you enjoy the work and you don't feel like it's too much, then just work when you feel like it. That also goes for self-education that you'd otherwise be doing during work time, like looking into that new framework. If your employer is flexible, you might also be able to work when you feel like it on Saturday night and then take Monday morning to sleep in and relax with a series while cooking breakfast. Of course, be careful when doing this, and it doesn't sound like this is for you, but it might be for other people. I sometimes work in evenings because a project is just a lot of fun and I don't want to play games to relax instead. Sometimes I take that time back later, sometimes not. As for disconnecting: when I'm done working I turn off my work laptop and don't carry my work phone. If someone wants to reach me for work they can contact my private phone, or if I want to do work, I need to boot the laptop (or pick up the phone but everyone else is also offline so not much work to be done there). I guess that makes it quite a conscious decision and clear barrier. It does, obviously, mean having private devices so you don't need to use your employer's equipment for private stuff.