A job is a job. If you have to set an alarm to wake up Monday morning, eventually it is going to grate on you regardless. I am sure there are some people who

A job is a job. If you have to set an alarm to wake up Monday morning, eventually it is going to grate on you regardless. I am sure there are some people who love it, but I suspect this is more likely akin to the social media effect (where you only see people sharing pictures of their amazing holiday/car/friends, and never the shit parts of their life, so that amplifies this feeling of "everyone's life is great but mine seems crap" because you only see/hear the edited best bits) I personally find that "coding for fun" at home is the best solution to not caring about work. You don't need to code for any purpose apart from the sheer joy of it - don't worry about open sourcing or a business model or a side business or even if anyone in the world will ever even see the code. Just code for fun even if that particular idea only lasts a Sunday afternoon (I have loads of projects that I worked on for perhaps total of like less than 10 or even 5 hours before getting bored and moving on, but it was fun for those 5-10 hours - that is fine, I occasionally pick things back up, but often not). You also don't need to care about every new tech that comes along. Good luck.