I spend 4 hours every morning and 10 hours every weekend and have done it for 4 years now. 3-5 hours is hard, and there are days I don't feel it or am just struggling.
What I find is that if I am irritated with my day job, I do better side work. If I am irritated with my side job, my day job work quality is better. There's like this pendulum of me wanting to escape and I found harmony in having 2 things I generally like that also piss me off enough to oscillate back and forth between them. Occasionally I get delusions that my side project is on the verge of a breakout, and reality might smack me around into appreciating my day job more.
You could say I'm in a stable state of general productivity throughput, but the project that benefits varies.
What I find is that if I am irritated with my day job, I do better side work. If I am irritated with my side job, my day job work quality is better. There's like this pendulum of me wanting to escape and I found harmony in having 2 things I generally like that also piss me off enough to oscillate back and forth between them. Occasionally I get delusions that my side project is on the verge of a breakout, and reality might smack me around into appreciating my day job more.
You could say I'm in a stable state of general productivity throughput, but the project that benefits varies.