[thecoppinger]

My advice would be to either find projects/things you really enjoy & are excited to work on, or try streaming your adventures and side projects on Twitch in the Software & Game Dev category. Ideally, both!

This has helped me to stay active working on things and learning stuff outside of my work hours.

I'll risk looking like I'm shamelessly self promoting myself, but here's my stream for an example of how you might go about it:

https://www.twitch.tv/aroreretini

I've been doing this for 5 years now and have met a small but wonderful bunch of folks, learnt a large amount across several different disciplines and generally enjoyed it all thoroughly.

Note, for me and others like me, the goal isn't to 'blow up' or get big on Twitch or elsewhere, but rather just to plod along learning & building in public as a means to stay active and focused.

If you'd like to explore this kind of thing, feel free to fire me a DM or email.

Good luck!

[py4]

You do the twitch for the fun or it's partially for making yourself committed in doing things? It kinda reminded of this from commitment perspectives: https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridic...

[thecoppinger]

Honestly, it's a bit of both. It keeps me committed & accountable, as well as gives me a small community of supporters who help me learn and support me as my friends—I've formed some really meaningful relationships this way, and I don't think I'd have experienced a fraction of the success I have over the last 5 years without the impact of said folks.

edit: thanks for sharing the M2M post, I hadn't come across that but it's absolutely incredible; 'twas a wonderful rabbit hole to go down :)