An interesting observation.<p>If someone here asked &quot;How do I have time to work 60h a week at my day job, 40h already feels like a lot&quot; - You would get a lot of responses telling you about work life balance, and that 40h is plenty of work - heck in Europe they work 36.<p>On the other hand after coding a full day, most people here suggest going home and coding side projects.<p>I think each person is different, but this is HARD to do. If you are working and thinking real hard at your day job, I don&#x27;t think you can really go home and do something useful on a side project. I have had periods where I spent 3 weeks going to meetings and writing tech docs - in those it would be easy to go home and code. But if I already put in a solid 40h of code? Forget about it, my brain can only code so much good code a week.