what i often do is flirting. what i really want to do is join a fitness gym or mix martial art club. which I havent. lol

Pick up an Arduino and start working with the hardware side of things. You'll learn how to make blinky shit that lights up. Everyone loves blinky shit that lights up.

I wanted to say just that :)

Arduino is awesome when I'm bored.

Martial arts are good. Just keep in mind that, if you are a natural skeptic like me, all the bushido warrior pseudo Japanese bowing and scraping, 5-year-old beating up 25-five year old attacker mysticism, "sir/ma'am"ing 12-year old kids because their belt is darker than yours will bother you deep down. I just take the good with the bad because I enjoy the moving part of karate. If you can't get over that, there are other martial arts where the formalities are not a part of the sport.

We've got a gym, pool and whirlpool tub at work, so I usually do some weight lifting followed by about 2 - 2.5 miles running on the treadmill on my lunch hour. When I don't feel like running or my knees are feeling the pain of the day-after-day abuse, I take a dip in the pool.

I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend doing outdoorsy things or watching movies, playing with our dogs, cooking, etc.

Spend time with family.

Maintain my yard, house, or vehicle.

When the weather is nice I play disc golf, hike, run outdoors or mountain bike. My girlfriend got me an inflatable kayak for Christmas, so I'll be a kayaker soon too.

I am an occasional home brewmaster. Occasional only because I don't make more beer than I can drink, and I brew in five to six gallon batches.

Find some meetups in your local area based on your interests outside of technology.

Find some meetups in your area based around your interests in technology.

Go to a board game store and see what kind of events they do. Typically there are board game nights that in many cities are well attended. And if you're into it, sometimes they have come-as-you-please table top RPGs (Dungeons and Dragons encounters comes to mind).

I don't believe in off-time. If I'm not coding one thing, I'm coding another. 60+ hours coding a week is ideal for me. Any less and I'll go crazy. I only stop coding to eat, sleep, go grocery shopping and church. Relationships? No. Family? I ignore them. Friends? Don't need any! Anything that takes precious moments away from me that could be used to be writing source code is dead weight.

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Work all you can until you feel tired, then dedicate to yourself and your family. I do this by going to the gym everyday, spending time with my girl, kicking on the fighting bag, playing some guitar and so on...

Try to achieve a good balance between other activities and the work, just so you don't get wear out by either of them, as well as so you don't touch the boredom field at all. This is what works for me :)

I find my self needing a break from time to time, but i also have a project im working on, with a few people involved. Now, there is no time quota its all hobbyist stuff, but i do feel the need to always be learning more about programming, since i am the java programmer, and i am fairly new, learning about programming and programming theorys and concepts for about 7 months now, and the actual syntax of the java language for 4 months now.

Now back to this break i was talking about... i use to, well play games! all the time... if i wasnt eating sleeping or trying to hack the lastest andriod, id be on My Xbox roaming the wastelands of Fallout 3(aweeeesssooommee game, my favorite... i want to create one of the likes one day) untill my eyes were bloodshot...

now i have sold my xbox because, yes i did get tired of it, and it sat doing nothing for about 6 months, collecting dust... with my new found hobby of wanting to create and program games!

but Now i find my self not knowing what to do, to relax and get my mind off the next problem at hand, or wanting to test some new code i have written down. i try getting on youtube and watching funny cat videos, epic fail compilations, or people doing this new found harlem shake(disturbing i know!) but i always end up getting sidetracked with a little voice telling me"hey, you really should learn how to do_____"<- fill in the blank". And i go and look up random tutorials on how to do, whatever i need to do at the moment for another hour, just getting my self back to the mind set of"Damn i need a break!" And the horrible cycle continues

what do you do for relaxing? I know it sounds corny but its becoming a real problem! like i really cant seem to relax like i use to. Any sugestions would be much appreciated.

Sorry for boring you with my personal life and its problems if you just dont care xD.

I'm having trouble with getting sidetracked. I still play games but my Xbox 360 is just gathering dust. I keep needing to finish playing certain games and work on important projects but I think I need a break from my PC. I want to work on these projects but I just can't bring myself to do them. I keep trying to learn new things so I don't have to work on them.