Your day job drains your creative energy

I made my own work amid the constant demands of court service, so I know the struggle of creating alongside draining obligations — and there are real ways through it. Guard a little of your best energy before the job takes it all — if you give the job every fresh hour and create only on the exhausted remainder, your making always gets your worst, so reserve a small pocket of your prime energy, a little in the morning perhaps, for your own work. Small and regular beats waiting for energy you won't have — the abundant energy for a big session rarely comes after a full day, so make small amounts consistently with whatever you have, for the tired regular session faithfully kept is how most people with day jobs actually make their work. And the job funds the making; hold the resentment lightly — for many makers the day job is what funds the freedom to create without depending on the work for money, so see it as an honorable bargain rather than a betrayal, and spend your energy on the making rather than on resenting it. How is the job leaving you at day's end?