Spend the entire work week thinking about your personal pet projects and how much you're looking forward towards the...

>spend the entire work week thinking about your personal pet projects and how much you're looking forward towards the weekend where you'll have 2 whole days to work on them
>keep taking mental notes during meetings and breaks and plot up all the awesome progress you're going to make
>weekend comes around, open up IDE
>immediately lose any motivation and end up playing video games, watching anime and shitposting on imageboards until monday
This is the fourth weekend in a row. How do I cope with this?

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By playing video games, watching anime and shitposting on imageboards until monday

Visualize your goal and harness your willpower. Just force yourself to close the extra tabs and the video game and to start on your project.
After 2 hours of forcing yourself it'll be a little bit easier.

I feel you bro. I made some progress on my project but once I hit a road bump and can't fix a problem I thought I got ironed out I just gave up. That was 4 weeks ago.

I just try to be as productive as I can at work and make side projects at work to make my life easier in the coming weeks. This WA to get to learn new languages and tech and when I get home I'm not feeling bad about being a complete mental vegetable

by working on your side projects at work.
I do it at my cuurent job because they always give me some really easy task to do and I'll wait a couple of weeks before saying it's done.
I hoping my side project will get me a good job though

>t. Walter Bright

Based

by having a job that isn't related to tech
otherwise it will always be like that
assuming you believe in another life after this one, don't pick something you love as your profession because you'll end up hating it

Not him, but I dream about making music during the week (music is completely unrelated to my job), but once the weekend rolls around I just shitpost on Jow Forums and maybe watch an episode or two of anime.

that's just you being an uncreative useless piece of shit not related to the OPs problem
you just think very highly of your own skills and ideas but when it's time to actually use them you subconsciously realize that you can't do it
so to protect your ego you spend the weekend procrastinating instead
don't feel bad though. most people here are just as uncreative as you and not many of them have a paying job

Quit your wage slave job. Play vidya on the weekends and do cool projects on the weekdays.

>spend 55+ hours at a desk working
>lose all energy and motivation to do anything on the two days where it's acceptable to rest and not be at your desk in the office
No, I think it's related.

Literally this. My job is fucking easy so I either read a book or work on some fun side projects most of the time.

it's not
it's just an excuse
actually creative people don't have this problem

Actually creative people likely aren't sitting at a desk 12 hours a day, 5 days a week.

>he doesn't have 3 day weekends
8 hour workday cuck

>8 hour workday cuck
>8
It's not the 70's anymore; gotta put in the time so your boss can buy his second yacht.

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I work 10 hour days and get 3 days off
i don't do anything important besides move boxes around

Sounds like you're living the dream. If I were to work 10 hour days, I would get 1 day off.

don't take mental notes, take physical notes. I started writing my ideas and projects into a physical paper notebook. If I'm bored I look at tthe thing and do something from it.
Crossing out shit you've done is so satisfying.

I kinda want to die.

At $16/hr not really
half my days i get to shitpost all day so its not so bad

feels bad as an NDA cuck

>work Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri
>never at work for more than two consecutive days
>10-6
>Everyone else leaves by 5 so have 1 hour to chill
>still get my work done
>get paid £20,000 a year, around £8k lower than average
>rent a comfy room, bills included, eat well, and socialise occassionally
>still save around £4-500 per month

This truly is the life for me.

How old are you and for how long have you been working professionally?

I recommend that you go to the library to work on your projects, there you will be distanced from anime, video games, shitposting, etc.

29. Been working for 4.5 years (took 6 months off between jobs to go travelling). I work in STEM doing fairly menial project management.

If you work on computers all week why would you want to work on them on your days off?

Because I fucking love computers and developing software. Or at the very least, I've managed to convince myself that I do.

>work life spent in front of computer
>spare time spent in front of computer
Living the dream. Is there any more to life?

this, working on side-projects makes me more productive since i have a reason to get through my work quicker
i finish my work by lunch, leave some changes uncommitted, do code reviews, work on my personal stuff, then commit and leave. before i would take all day and do less work since i'd be reading articles, customizing vim or tmux, or posting here when i got bored

Work on your projects after work
It's easy to get used to doing nothing after work, but if you have momentum, seeing your github activity graph can be good motivation to keep working.
My streak is currently at 1 month. It helps that I work remotely so I don't have to worry about leaving the office early.

The thing is, things you enjoy can also be mentally taxing. I don't think it's healthy to constantly be in the state of running your brain at full capacity. It's kind've like sleep...if you have an exhausting day you will naturally want to sleep longer.

The weekend is probably your body and/or brain trying to recuperate from a week of mentally exhausting work. You basically NEED those days to veg or zone out so when Monday comes you are ready once again. Horrible cycle but it is what it is

i've worked for 3 companies that had me sign NDAs and a contract saying anything I develop in my free time is automatically company property
i've worked on personal stuff at all 3 companies, none have ever tried to take ownership of my code
probably helps if you dont earn a dime off of it
i'd probably lose in court but i'd just upload it to torrent sites at that point and pay russian seedboxes so it wouldn't get taken down
because i actually like my personal projects. i can rewrite and break apis whenever i want, and design software i actually use, not rushed to market crap with no tests because my manager thinks automated testing is a waste of time
even if i owned the rights to the code i write at work i'd never post it publicly, it's terrible and every feature we put in feels like im playing a game of jenga with how fragile some areas are