Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle with procrastination wh...
by flyGuyOnTheSly on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:47PM
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It's not working in a team exactly, but venturing out into your local community and rubbing elbows with like minds daily certainly helps with the boredom of being a dev who works alone at home.
I've been one for over a decade now... and I didn't know how bored and depressed I really was until I walked into a yoga studio earlier this year and began practicing daily.
I've even met a few other developers there to shoot the shit. Turns out there are a lot of people with a lot of time on their hands... usually because they're well off financially and working on their own things... that visit these kinds of places.
When I work alone, just a trickle of productivity comes out, unless I really push myself.
Once, I forced myself to work 4 hours a day for months to push a project out. I was able to accomplish this, but I was quite miserable when I was working.
Before I retired and was working for a company, I was able to push out 10 hours a day including a day on the weekend, and felt fine.
I keep thinking if there was only some way to create a team like environment I'd be able to accomplish a lot more, but I'm not sure how to do that. Reporting my results to others who aren't invested in what I'm doing doesn't seem to work. So, I don't know.