After coding for 8+ hours the last thing I want to do is keep sitting at my computer coding other things.
My current hobbies are:
- Practicing guitar
- Making stuff (woodworking, lately. I just made a nice bedside shelf with a drawer)I also (begrudgingly) write a lot of documentation and helper scripts because I know the next time I touch a project, I'll have forgotten how everything works, and will _not_ want to spend time going through all the code. Write a script to help you deploy, and document where you need to get the credentials from. You'll be amazed how you forget that you need to copy it up to an s3 bucket, and you'll also forget where to get the creds.
It's great having productive & rewarding hobbies, but don't beat yourself up over the fact you don't want to code for 12 hours a day.
I think there's this expectation that coders love coding so much that it's all we do. We're expected to have these amazing Github profiles with OSS contributions and side projects. But do sales people run lemonade stands in their spare time? No, they're out there skiing and taking photos on top of mountains (or whatever sales people do).
Not exactly what I was looking for but helped me feel better. Thanks!