Work doesn't necessarily need to be stressful. If you're doing the right stuff, it's fun enough that you want to keep at it and you're productive in different ways throughout the day.
It's rare when I feel like I'm "working all [my] waking hours" because when I feel mentally drained on the boring things, I find some of the fun things in our backlog and toy with those-- e.g. designing a prototype for our next site, doing some graphic design (which I find fun but I'm not so good at), trying a new technology/tool that might help us out, etc.
I enjoy hacking very much. Startup founders often get caught up working on all sorts of unfun business things during their core hours so designing/coding then becomes your relaxation time.
The biggest problem is that exercise stuff-- I'm going to go work on that right now.
It's rare when I feel like I'm "working all [my] waking hours" because when I feel mentally drained on the boring things, I find some of the fun things in our backlog and toy with those-- e.g. designing a prototype for our next site, doing some graphic design (which I find fun but I'm not so good at), trying a new technology/tool that might help us out, etc.
I enjoy hacking very much. Startup founders often get caught up working on all sorts of unfun business things during their core hours so designing/coding then becomes your relaxation time.
The biggest problem is that exercise stuff-- I'm going to go work on that right now.