[BalKinYellow]

This. Since first getting paid for programming I've almost never programmed on my own time. Sometime I do still get in flow but rarely given what I'm tasked.

Also started "labor" hobbies (car maintenance, welding, etc) but I think a professional mechanic or welder would say the same thing about their jobs. Why? "Professional" (aka money) ruins everything after a while. You get to a point where all you do is the same thing over and over, maybe with slight variations in between. Unless one has full, money no object, choice of what jobs to accept, this will happen.