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struggling to be productive after work
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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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This is a mood, OP. I'm in the same boat. I get up around 7:30a, do the work thing, hit the gym, home, dinner, and boom, it's 9:00p. I've got about 3 hours to myself, but it gets split up between chores and then possibly leisure. The weekends are a lot of make-up chores from the week and meal prep for the week to come. What little time I have left is split between trying to relax, do professional development, and creative pursuits.
All that being said, I want to be creative. Make something that people care about even if it's only 10 people. I've been tinkering around with game dev for years at this point without much progress. I never feel like I have enough time to get stuck in and I run into the issue where I don't have, and lack the skill to create, art assets. Oddly enough, the only time my brain seems really ready to work on that stuff is when I'm exhausted and am about to go to bed. If I could only activate that earlier in the day.