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I feel you. I'm a non-24 so regular office hours are often problematic for me. When I was self-employed, I'd just work whenever I would feel like, be it regular hours or weekends, day or night. I'd accomplish a lot more because I would simply be in the right mood for work at that time.

I tried a 9-5 "flexible" job (remote foss work) for a year or so and was often extremely unproductive, sometimes for several weeks. It just clashes with the way I operate.

For most of the past year I've been trying to follow my github streak to maintain the idea of doing a little work every day, no matter how small (https://github.com/jleclanche/). It's been an incredibly productive year and I've never felt unproductive like I did before. I haven't felt the need for holidays because my "work days" are not tiresome. I still take holidays sometimes, as long as I can get one small piece of work done during the day, even if it only takes 15 minutes.

I kinda miss freelancing, although closed-source work makes me itch nowadays.



You might checkout Redhat and Mozilla. I've heard nothing but good things from people working remotely at both orgs, and they have FOSS projects for people to work on.




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