Sooo many things happened since my last post here. I won’t bore you with the details, so let me just tell you the most important thing: I’m now a fulltime employee in video game development. So you’re probably thinking now that this must be bad news for all my projects. But it’s actually the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let me explain. For 15 years I had my own little company and I had to make sure that it survived and earned enough money to feed my wife and myself. I had to constantly look at possibilities to make this thing profitable. If I didn’t find clients that fit me well I had to work in projects that were super un-fun. At least they paid the bills. I worked on my own projects only when I had the time and energy and when I didn’t have to worry about money. (When the pandemic hit, these occasions became increasingly rare and my slow descent into burnout began.) But now I have a job. I get paid every month. I don’t have to constantly think about how I make ends meet. And I don’t have to over-extend myself to achieve that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I work five days a week, eight hours per day. And the rest of the time I don’t have to think about “work” and earning money. I can actually relax. I can recharge. And when I want to I can put some of that time and mental energy into developing things I enjoy, the projects I love to work on and am passionate about. And I already am!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, I won’t promise anything right now. I learned in the last years that telling people about any specific features or dates or timeframes rarely works out. Instead, I’m just excited to tell you that this is a great change for me and that I’m really enthusiastic about both my new day job and about the fact that I already put more time & energy into my own projects this week than I did for at least two months before that. And on top of that I’m actually posting something here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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