!rant

Since few days/weeks, I'm way less productive, much easily distracted, not into my job ... I'm the only dev here, mostly alone at office, and a lot of pressure on my shoulders ... Do you have some tips, to gain productivity, and have the smile back ?

PS : every single day I just dream about my current side project, but it's my job who pays the bills ..

Vacation? What kind of development are you doing?

@taijidude lead and only dev, and I create a data management platform, so big customers, a lot of pressure and a little mistake can be fatal ... ^^

Sounds really stressful. Are you getting enough sleep? When was your Last vacation?

@taijidude about 6h of sleep (because after work I do a lot of sport :-) and side projects too), and my last vacations were 1 week, 6 months ago ^^ next vacations are in February or March, one week maybe

Awesome, what kind of Sports do you do? Sleepwise that would be not enough for me. I think your coding and your sports will both benefit from a little more sleep. As more sleep means more regeneration, more energy, better ability to Focus and think. I would do the following try to go 4 weeks with 7 hours and 4 weeks with 8 hours. See when you feel best. If it's 6 hours you can always go back after 2 months. But i would try it for two months. Besides sleep... Get break once in a while. Try to do something completly different. Clear your head, so that you can have a fresh look at the code. You seem to do a lot which is awesome. Get some good rest in there as well, so you can keep up the pace and don't get burned out.

@taijidude thanks for your reply ! I'll try that ! Btw, I'm doing powerlifting (losing weight, gaining strength and muscle volume), about 2h per day, 5-6 days a week :-)

@HeavyNounours and taking a break ... Not easy when all the company works with your code ^^

Start-up?

@taijidude kind of, but with a lot of money ^^

Do you have the weekend off?

@taijidude yup ! That's going for me, which is nice

Ok, than i would try to compensate the lack of vacation with small weekend trips. Try to get out on friday, do something completly different than programming, maybe traveling or visiting friends. And be back on Sunday evening. My guess is that you will feel better and are better able to focus on Monday. In long term i would try to make changes at work that enable you to take longer vacations.

@taijidude I can try ! Thanks bro !

Your very welcome :-)