[brianwawok]

An interesting observation.

If someone here asked "How do I have time to work 60h a week at my day job, 40h already feels like a lot" - You would get a lot of responses telling you about work life balance, and that 40h is plenty of work - heck in Europe they work 36.

On the other hand after coding a full day, most people here suggest going home and coding side projects.

I think each person is different, but this is HARD to do. If you are working and thinking real hard at your day job, I don't think you can really go home and do something useful on a side project. I have had periods where I spent 3 weeks going to meetings and writing tech docs - in those it would be easy to go home and code. But if I already put in a solid 40h of code? Forget about it, my brain can only code so much good code a week.