I don't have 9 till 5 work... I do some contracting and I build my own product. With contracting there is hardly any room for boredom -- there are usually goals i need to hit and monetary reward that keeps me excited.
With my own project it's harder -- it doesn't return as much money-wise and requires a lot of work upfront. So I get demotivated, start to visit websites your mentioning -- spend my time pointlessly on internet ;-)
But I set a goal of committing one feature/enhancement everyday (even on weekends). Once I have that one new commit in master branch - I'm free to do whatever. So I try to pick something related to my project - contribute to open source libraries i'm using, read a book that may be useful or do another practice pitch to potential client.
I generally consider learning for a sake of learning to be a pointless endeavor. So I'm very focused on 'doing things to learn'. :)
I like your commitment to completing one feature a day before being free to do whatever. I really need to incorporate this in to my weekend; work on one thing in my JavaScript libraries before playing games or doing other hobbies for the remainder of the day.
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I don't have 9 till 5 work... I do some contracting and I build my own product. With contracting there is hardly any room for boredom -- there are usually goals i need to hit and monetary reward that keeps me excited.
With my own project it's harder -- it doesn't return as much money-wise and requires a lot of work upfront. So I get demotivated, start to visit websites your mentioning -- spend my time pointlessly on internet ;-)
But I set a goal of committing one feature/enhancement everyday (even on weekends). Once I have that one new commit in master branch - I'm free to do whatever. So I try to pick something related to my project - contribute to open source libraries i'm using, read a book that may be useful or do another practice pitch to potential client.
I generally consider learning for a sake of learning to be a pointless endeavor. So I'm very focused on 'doing things to learn'. :)
I like your commitment to completing one feature a day before being free to do whatever. I really need to incorporate this in to my weekend; work on one thing in my JavaScript libraries before playing games or doing other hobbies for the remainder of the day.