Stand And Deliver: Your hobby or your life?

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For me there is no significant other to get in the way of my hobby but I find that work is doing a good enough job of getting in the way itself.

In terms of "Hobby getting in the way of life" yes for sure. When I am not working I am working on one of the websites I maintain, am taking images or eating so I don't really get that much free time these days. Even my TV watching is down to half an hour of the news a day and I've played a video game twice since the the end of the year. What does this mean? It means my socialising has pretty much dried up again. I've tried making an effort more over the last few months, but I probably actually see any of my friends once every month or two months and normally its just for a film or at a gig. I'm going to try to get more of a work-life balance going again but its hard.

Right now I work 6 days a week on average, have done some contract work and have just become a share-holder in a consultancy company for which I will also be an contractor and, in a month or so, I will probably become a director of another start-up. So as you can imagine that takes up most of my days. During the week when i get in I tend to eat then start working on my own projects which leaves one weekend day to relax and that, for the last 4 months, has involved more of my own work or perhaps resting. With the additional work / companies I have taken on it will probably get worse but hopefully it will prove worth it in the end as if my current employer does go under in 6-9 months as it has been predicted, hopefully the start-up and consultancy work would have built up enough that I can go full time on that.

So at the moment Work Life is winning over hobby and personal life is restricted to about 3 hours a week.