It’s really a problem that work tends to expand to fill all the cracks completely. You’d think the 8-hour workday would leave 8 hours for sleep and another 8 for recreation and other necessities, but somehow in my life there’s really only about 6 hours for sleep and 2-3 hours for everything else. Some of that is kids, but it’s not the entire explanation and honestly I’m not too sure where it all goes sometimes.

For me it's the kid. Kid doesn't really take a huge chunk of time, but he takes all the time between 5pm and 6:30pm, 50 mins between 6:30 and 8:00pm, 10 mins between 9:00 and 10:00, and many times 30 mins between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. So in reality I don't even have a large enough chunk of time for gaming, let alone studying and working on side projects. And occasionally work spills into the night.

I have to sacrifice sleep for anything I want.