Managing free time in working life?
Posted: 21 Sep 2015, 11:48
Hey all,
it's not hard to tell that I've been rather distant lately, with less and less time spent on the site. Besides the fact that I have not yet set up Unreal/UT to work on my Linux install, a lot of it comes down to the fact that I'm now employed as a full-time web developer, which leaves less space - and, due to dealing with it throughout the day, less motivation - to do hobby web work.
As the administrator of a website housing a pleasant, skilled and beautiful community, my inability to work on the site regularly strikes me with guilt. And so I was hoping to get some thoughts by other community members who deal with university/work/other occupation, and yet find the creativity and enthusiasm to work on hobby projects in their spare time.
I confess that my line of work, and my office environment are both "easy mode"; I am surrounded by 4-5 like-minded, relaxed people, and my work is mostly fun and simple (light PHP coding, SCSS styling and clicking things together in web interfaces). From what I heard of others, I must really be living the life and even so I'm not up to speed with hobby "duties"!
How do you do it? How do you escape the lure of mindless gaming, TV watching, browsing, napping etc. and manage to concentrate on hobbies that involve some form of effort? Perhaps there's some secret I haven't caught onto yet?
it's not hard to tell that I've been rather distant lately, with less and less time spent on the site. Besides the fact that I have not yet set up Unreal/UT to work on my Linux install, a lot of it comes down to the fact that I'm now employed as a full-time web developer, which leaves less space - and, due to dealing with it throughout the day, less motivation - to do hobby web work.
As the administrator of a website housing a pleasant, skilled and beautiful community, my inability to work on the site regularly strikes me with guilt. And so I was hoping to get some thoughts by other community members who deal with university/work/other occupation, and yet find the creativity and enthusiasm to work on hobby projects in their spare time.
I confess that my line of work, and my office environment are both "easy mode"; I am surrounded by 4-5 like-minded, relaxed people, and my work is mostly fun and simple (light PHP coding, SCSS styling and clicking things together in web interfaces). From what I heard of others, I must really be living the life and even so I'm not up to speed with hobby "duties"!
How do you do it? How do you escape the lure of mindless gaming, TV watching, browsing, napping etc. and manage to concentrate on hobbies that involve some form of effort? Perhaps there's some secret I haven't caught onto yet?