Fuck being productive
Work at work, enjoy life outside of work. Have real weekends and evenings and use them to reset your brain. Allowing your brain to reset is an essential part of being productive. Your short term memory gets in the way of solving problems sometimes. And your brain actually does useful things while you sleep. I&#x27;ve lost count of how solutions to seemingly tricky issues just pop in my head after a good night sleep or after a long weekend.<p>And you can learn on the job. No need to do that outside work hours. And trying to learn stuff when you are tired after a long day is hard. It makes you more tired, you learn slower, it&#x27;s frustrating, and you are setting yourself up for being less productive the next day because of it.<p>Make time for learning stuff, demand time for it even and put it in your calendar or just sneak it in. Get your boss to support you.<p>Try working smarter, not harder. If it feels like monkey work automate it. It&#x27;s more fun and you get more productive by doing less. Frees up some time to do more interesting things.<p>If your work is not interesting to you, you are in the wrong job anyway. But assuming it is, you should make the most of it in terms of making it rewarding (and not just in the money sense).