If you can, choose to do hard things at work. I was the guy who decided to use debuggers, dig through bug reports, patches, etc... usually it's a bit more inter

If you can, choose to do hard things at work. I was the guy who decided to use debuggers, dig through bug reports, patches, etc... usually it's a bit more interesting and makes you more valuable. But yeah, make sure you live life to the full outside work. Spend work hours shooting the breeze, being tired or hungover. Get some podcasts going on. I prefer D&D because the stories are never predictable.