There is a middle ground between quitting and not doing anything enjoyable.
I noticed a few weeks ago that I am always kind of tired after work, and can't do anything really useful. So I decided I'd go to bed early, and then get up at 4am to work on stuff I wanted to work on. Fresh coffee, fresh from sleeping, and not tired from work.
Then around 9, I go to work and have a normal day. I might be a little tired at work, but I'd rather have the awake-and-creative me for myself. I don't get paid enough to give them that.
Not sure. My willpower is limited, so sometimes I totally ignore my "routine" and sleep in to noon. (I did today.) It's 2:30AM here now, so obviously I am not going to be waking up at 4AM today :)
I am sticking with the 4am thing for two reasons. One, I like to ride my bike around 5:30 or 6-ish in the morning because nobody is out running on the trail I like at that time. (Runners are very dangerous.) If I go in the afternoon, I have to skip the trail and use surface streets instead, and a 14 mile ride takes an hour and a half. In the morning, I can do 25 miles in that time. So more exercise, less cars, and better scenery is one incentive to get up.
Another thing is that I have all my meals delivered via some service that does that, and they come at around 4:30 or 5. So I have to get out of bed anyway.
In the end, there is an infinite number of things to do that take time, but only a finite number of hours in a day. So if you are intent on setting a routine, you aren't going to be able to do everything you want. If you are flexible, though, then you might be able to.
For me, I identified, "I am tired after work" and moved things that don't require being non-tired (watching TV and sleeping) to after work. Then I moved everything else to before.
It's expensive and you don't get a lot of food, but everything is very good for you and I've lost about 8 pounds in 2 weeks. Lots of green vegetables, fiber, and fish. And I get steak and potatoes every so often!
My current job consists mostly of listening to people whine in meetings about a broken system that my team is trying to maintain. No need to be awake for that.
I wish I could go into more detail about this project. But I'll just say I spent a few hours completely rewriting this project, and my version uses no proprietary libraries or protocols, has the ability to scale linearly, and was 200 lines of Perl. The real system is too slow for our users, impossible to scale, dependent on 5-year-old proprietary libraries, and is 100,000 (or so) lines of C#.
Now you know why we charge those $35 overdraft fees.
He gives 100% of what's left after his cut. In any case, unless there was a seriously marked decrease in performance I doubt most people would be able to detect the difference.
I noticed a few weeks ago that I am always kind of tired after work, and can't do anything really useful. So I decided I'd go to bed early, and then get up at 4am to work on stuff I wanted to work on. Fresh coffee, fresh from sleeping, and not tired from work.
Then around 9, I go to work and have a normal day. I might be a little tired at work, but I'd rather have the awake-and-creative me for myself. I don't get paid enough to give them that.