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Ask HN: How do you spend your evenings?

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1. exercise

2. Am I exhausted from my day job? no -> side projects yes -> netflix

3. Read books.

4. Do dishes and other chores. My girlfriend cooks so it frees up a ton of time.

same with minor, irrelevant changes. :-)

that sounds pretty fulfilling; how much "evening time" do you have to be able to afford these activities?

I got a new job with a 15 minute commute and free breakfast, lunch and dinner. So if I eat dinner at work then I will be home around 7ish, and go to bed at 11.

That leaves enough time to do most things but not everything everyday.

I also fart around on the Internet a lot in the mornings but when I am more diligent then I wash dishes and read books before work too.

I get home around 7-8. Half of the time I'll cook dinner with my wife, talk about our days as we cook, eat dinner together. Around 8:30 or 9:00 we'll hang out in the living room. If I have energy and am feeling ambitious, or I have to work a bit extra, we will listen to music and I will code (for work, or open source, or side projects), while she reads. This might last until midnight, and then we'll go to bed. I try to read for at least fifteen minutes before bed on a kindle as I wind down. Seems to work well.

If I'm too tired to work, we'll watch netflix together.

Two nights a week I try to exercise (martial arts classes) and instead of cooking I'll get take out or eat at the local inexpensive Japanese or Mexican restaurant.

The same way as I spend my mornings, days, and nights: nothing constructive.

I get home between 7 and 8pm. Usually my evening goes:

1. Yoga at my neighborhood studio

2. Dinner (eggs and toast with kimchi, maybe sauteed kale if I'm feeling ambitious)

3. Reading time or, if feeling lazy, I listen to a podcast and crochet for a little bit.

4. A small amount of writing (at the very least a journal entry)

As you can see... the last thing I want to do when I get home is touch code. But maybe this is why I'm a mediocre developer...

Does anyone have any advice as to how I can actually want to code when I get home???

I reach home somewhere around 7.

Finish my dinner by 7:30

Fool around for next 30 mins.

At 8 I start coding.

I am a newbie developer, I have many things to learn before I can work on a project that really matters. So, most of my coding time is spent learning new things like C Socket programming, iOS development, etc

Get home between 5 and 7 (if I go downtown). Play with my son, eat dinner, clean up some. Bath and bed for the kid, then spending some time with my wife. Then I either do more work, dink around on reddit, or read.

Get home at around 6pm, stream League of Legends until midnight. Go to bed.

Due to donations I can treat it as a poor paying part-time job.

Pick two to three, repeat until tired.

1. Unnecessary social networking

2. Make music

3. Paint

4. Go for a walk

5. Go out to eat

6. Consume recreational inebriants

7. Watch move/tv show

world of warcraft and binge watching netflix or hate watching netflix, depending on what I'm in the mood for.

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