[RobotCaleb]

Have you never made anything without trying to make a dollar on it?

[mock-possum]

No, I think the operative question is -

Have you never felt so exhausted from working your day job that you don’t feel like building anything during your free time?

[eieio]

FWIW (I'm the author) my creative output was ~0 while I was working a 'normal' job. I worked really hard and didn't have much energy for tech stuff outside of work (especially since I wanted to live a life that included non-tech things!)

I think it's totally fine to not make stuff outside of work, and it's so impressive to me that some of my friends manage to make creative stuff in their free time while working a day job.

[maccard]

I don’t think it is. I think it’s normal to feel that way sometimes in our line of work, but it’s not normal to always feel that way.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Yeah but once I've been on break for a couple weeks my marshmallow unsquishes and I start making free stuff again

[saagarjha]

Sometimes, but not always.