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When working remotely, sometimes I find myself at the end of the day and see that I did nothing today for my software engineering work. Does it happen to you too? What do you say the next morning in the daily meeting to your manager, do you say honestly or come up with something?

I have a dream of making a cringe detector - a program that you could input a tweet or image, and it outputs how cringy it is.

I am thinking, it could use a neural net, or not necessary.

I was trying to imagine, how could that thing work? And actually out of clue.

What do you think?

To me it's obvious that the military operation is a project just like any other.

How are projects managed at war? Do they try to go Agile, or it's mostly waterfall? Please share you knowledge and experience.

I work a 40 hour week, usually from 10 to 6.

It's so happened, that most of businesses surrounding me are also only open during exactly same time.

I am a human, and I need to go to doctors, therapists, other time I need to visit some place to let's say choose some furniture to buy, or just to drink a cup of coffee in a lunch time on a terrace of a cafe. I am human, and I feel I am becoming less human if I don't allow myself such things!

The problem is that I don't understand how to talk about that with my employer. Usually when I need to get out, I just put the "afk" status on slack and go.

What happens after: if I had no slack mentions, and nothing happened, I feel okay, as if my "bad move" went unnoticed. But if I see some unviewed mentions, somebody was pinging me, I immediately feel lots of shame and guilt. My reaction is: "I'm here now, let's work work work! I am sorry I was absent people!" It feels really bad and weird.

HN, did you also ever feel like this? What strategies you found useful?

I see some developers are doing really fabulous projects, and I also want to do it – I do have many terrific, how I think, ideas.

But 40 hour work week eats all my time! I barely have time to cook food, spend time with partner, walk the pet - the basic stuff, which I can't lose.

Should I just make the leap of faith, and if yes then how to come back to work after a fail, when my saved money ends? Is it necessary to quit the job? Should I pursue my partner to earn more (non-IT), that I could quit my job?

I am very lost, any tips.