[dragonwriter]

> The problem is that I have a few private projects that I would love to try out. They all need coding.

Is that all they need? Otherwise, maybe work the non-coding parts when your motivation to code is low and, with any luck, the excitement and desire to complete the project once you are into it will provide the motivation.

Or maybe coding in your spare time just isn't for you right now, and you need to find other things that fit.

My spare time coding is pretty different from what I do at work and for very different purposes and I rarely feel like it's the same thing, any more than say writing documentation at work and writing adventures for a TTRPG at home are the same because both are writing. But there's definitely stretched where I am less interested in coding in my spare time and then I just do other things.