Easy, start drinking heavily before your work day is supposed to be done, and eventually you just can't work. Hah. I kid. I have a dedicated home office, so when I'm done I just leave the room and don't go back until the next day. But, you don't have that option, so that's not fun.
You need to stick to a schedule.
Don't work in pajamas. Do everything you'd normally do to get ready to go to a job and be on time (it's great that you have extra!) I just mean, shower and get dressed sort of thing. I won't do work attire though. Yuck. At least we toned down the business casual to jeans and stuff years ago. I can't stand that look, and those shirts. I've always rebelled. I'm not a Kohl's mannequin. I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
At the end of the day:
If you work on a company laptop, pack that thing up. Shut it down, and put it in a backpack or whatever. The day is done.
I usually make myself leave (at least go outside) the house when I'm done. Sometimes I get in the car to just pick something up at a store. Or just drive for 10 minutes. I do like the peaceful drive of electric cars. Most of the time I say "hey" to the cats and get some belly rubs in, not like they haven't been bugging me throughout the day, and then go out in the friggin' sweltering heat for a bit. Just to shut my brain off from work stuff. I put in some earphones and listen to music, podcasts, audio books. Things to just get my mind off of things and switch. I try to not hit the couch, or I'll end up bingeing on some stupid show that I don't care about at all.
Plan on chatting with friends, family, or something at the end of the work day as well. Get into a social mode.
In the end, screw the 60+ hour work weeks you can get sucked into. Yuck! Might as well get a side gig instead.
> If you work on a company laptop, pack that thing up. Shut it down, and put it in a backpack or whatever. The day is done.
If you don't have a separate work computer, get an external bootable drive, and do your work booted from that drive with your internal drive not mounted. When done with the work day, boot back to your internal drive and put the external drive in a drawer or closet.
You need to stick to a schedule.
Don't work in pajamas. Do everything you'd normally do to get ready to go to a job and be on time (it's great that you have extra!) I just mean, shower and get dressed sort of thing. I won't do work attire though. Yuck. At least we toned down the business casual to jeans and stuff years ago. I can't stand that look, and those shirts. I've always rebelled. I'm not a Kohl's mannequin. I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
At the end of the day:
If you work on a company laptop, pack that thing up. Shut it down, and put it in a backpack or whatever. The day is done.
I usually make myself leave (at least go outside) the house when I'm done. Sometimes I get in the car to just pick something up at a store. Or just drive for 10 minutes. I do like the peaceful drive of electric cars. Most of the time I say "hey" to the cats and get some belly rubs in, not like they haven't been bugging me throughout the day, and then go out in the friggin' sweltering heat for a bit. Just to shut my brain off from work stuff. I put in some earphones and listen to music, podcasts, audio books. Things to just get my mind off of things and switch. I try to not hit the couch, or I'll end up bingeing on some stupid show that I don't care about at all.
Plan on chatting with friends, family, or something at the end of the work day as well. Get into a social mode.
In the end, screw the 60+ hour work weeks you can get sucked into. Yuck! Might as well get a side gig instead.