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I recommend the book _Refuse to Choose_ by Barbara Scher. It is about how to use that Edison-like tendency of yours as an asset rather than having to stuff it all the time.

Maybe the side projects are too close to the day job? That's kind of what was nice about playing music - it was totally different.

If anything, it would be the job being too close to side projects. I learned programming to build cool things, the career was only a lucky accident for me.

Maybe just tell us about them.

One is a Mars colonization roguelike I'm designing every spare minute I have, the other is half-finished haptic device that only needs me to find the time to design and make a PCB (and solder components I already have), and the third would be a set-up for notifications from various home appliances via processing the noises they make. I have all the hardware for this already in place, but lack the time to code the required DSP.