>>17430256I used to start at 7, I'd have to get up early but I'd be done by 3 and at home by 4. That's 6-7 hours of free time at least. I would play a game, eat dinner, and then honestly do some side stuff related to my work as I quite liked it. Not the main thing, but learning more about the whole process, improvements and such. I used to be a teacher, got into IT as a tech writer, and a decade later I'm a manager of a team of analysts. And since I keep doing small improvements, this time as a manager, I usually don't have to work more than 3-4 hours a day because I automated/delageted half of my tasks.
But even when I was cranking help texts day after day I still had 4-5 hours at the very least to do stuff. But I'm an optimization freak so dunno. I just don't buy that whole bleak outlook on life. It just makes you even less motivated to do anything, making you more stuck doing what you do. Sometimes I feel that it is precisely because I was happy with eating mcdonalds and pirating vidya, I had the energy to get to the point where I eat at restaurants and do dunno... skydiving and shit. I was honestly as happy then as I am now.
