I actually do a lot, but it's not paid and it's sporadic (depends heavily on my mood for the day), so it doesn't really count.
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The people who do best splitting work and home life seem to be the people who are really constant and not particularly artistic or autistic. The median people. The ones who work at 50% productivity 24/7/365.
I'm like 10% productivity, 80% productivity, 500%, 10%... 15%, -80%...
😅 🙈
Leads to the weird situation that I always feel completely lazy and useless, but I make my employers so much money on that one 500% day, that they get upset when I quit.
Live view of me trying, and mostly failing, to be productive today:
Have you ever thought about making yourself 500% money on one day?
Then nobody cares if you’re lazy, including you.
That's why I'm trying to be self-employed, to be honest. I keep literally making other people rich, while feeling like a lazy bum, and it's like...
I should do this for myself, for once. 🤔
You definitely should 🫂
It's especially stupid not to, in software development, because the work is all just me sitting at my dining room table and typing on my laptop.
So, I just went and got my own laptop and now I type for myself. 😅
That's it. That's basically the entire change to self-employment.
This is the way