When do married programmers find time to work?

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Published on 2010-06-11T19:07:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 19:12 UTC
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Hi people,

Maybe my problem is unique (though I don't believe so), and probably I should go with it to the psychologist, but sinse I get married (~year ago) I feel that I don't have enough time to work anymore. For years I've been working at my day job doing regular stuff, and at nights I've been committing to the opensource projects, freelancing and self-educating. Now, I can't work at home at all, because once I start working, my wife either says that there're more important thing to do (walk out the dog, buy something in a grocery, etc.) or that I don't pay anough attention to her..

As a workaround, I've started getting up at 3-4AM in the morning to do the things I was usually doing nightly before. After a month of such schedule I feel myself totally crushed.

So... 2 questions:

  • Do you have the same problems, or I'm just a <...>, who should say goodbye to programming, and start doing "really important things"?
  • If you have the same problems, when do you find time to work? Maybe you know any cool lifehack or trick to spend at least some tome for doing the thing you like :)

Best regards.

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