[sdiy] I have come to accept, this is where it ends... sale.

[ChristianH]

Same here. Once I started working in the software business years ago,
home projects suffered exactly for that reason. 

But in recent years, I learnt to appreciate "working" under more relaxed
circumstances you won't have in a commercial environment. I really enjoy
doing things "good" instead of "in time". 

In particular, for collecting ideas and concepts, I do what I like to
call sofa engineering - sitting on the couch, feet on the table, a
bottle of beer at hand, and nothing but a notepad (the paper variety,
not the one with a TFT...)
And this can easily go on for some 2 or 3 hours - you can't do that at
work ;-)  But it has shown that this can be way more productive than
staring at the screen all day long, always aiming for the next
micro-solution within minutes.

Combine that with the freedom to put a project on hold if the weather's
fine or I'm not in the mood for it. My boss wouldn't like that attitude
either...

So, working in the same field you did as your hobby doesn't have to mean
you can't have fun with your hobby anymore.

Chris



On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:20:39 +0000 David Evans <dfevans at sekrit.eu> wrote:

> On 9 Dec 2013, at 11:09, Rutger Vlek wrote:
> 
> > Very familiar indeed! During my PhD my mind was so saturated with work that I didn't enjoy many of my hobbies. Especially the more creative aspects, making decisions, etc were hard. Now the PhD is done hobbies are becoming more interesting again.
> 
> That was my experience too, but then I went and became an academic! :|