[savy91]

Some ideas that work for me: - become a freelance, only accept short time jobs so you can deliver, get paid, and enjoy the free time when you can focus - ideate, advocate, and work on short interesting projects that can give you dopamine when your regular job becomes too boring to do. Example? I was feeling like this and I proposed I'd create an internal tool to read sms messages from Twilio to be used internally when we do manual QA of our app - try to change the physical location where you work at. Sometimes I go working at food halls in malls or at coffee shops, the change of environment resets something in my brain and I can focus again - find some sports that helps you. For me it's running, I tried other sports but it looks like what works for me is the prolonged effort and energy drain of running, which you don't get when doing weight lifting for example

[ostenning]

Agree with the freelancer suggestion. Freelancers generally have a more equal business relationship with clients and clients will respect you when you decide to block off time for other projects, and/or your health.

Freelancing comes with its own challenges, especially when it comes to finding work, but the tradeoffs, higher remuneration and increased flexibility are worth it.

One caveat is you do need to be quite good, or quite specialized at what you do.