I feel you on that. I'm generally wasted after work cause my work demands a lot of my brain power and ability to context switch quickly. I'm also an immigrant, wasn't born rich, came here alone for university and continued working, with no family here, and still single too thanks to not having the mental energy to socialize on most days. My work pays well too, and the people are nice to work with, but it's not something that really fits my vision for the future, and, while my they are nice, I don't think my coworkers share the same kind of thoughts for the future. That said, I can live somewhat comfortably now, from near nothing to something, thanks to my job, from not needing to drive, and just needing little to live on.

I've been wanting to join my local Makerspace, but I don't know how well that'll work out if I can't show up consistently enough. To make things even harder, I'm quite the introvert too, so socializing is bad on my social fuel.

But I know I gotta push myself and try at some point, and the sooner the better, not just for my whole spiel earlier, but also for expanding my somewhat small social circle (at least, I think it's pretty small, but dang, it's so hard to keep those connections afresh).

I'm actively trying to push my work env to essentially lessen my burden so that I'd have more energy left for myself after work. It's not really working though, cause I'm just rewarded with more work after a job well done in getting more people to be able to share my work, and now I ended up as the expert whom all these people go to for help.

I yapped there, but my point is to say thay I'm trying myself too and I know it's not necessarily easy. But I'm determined to find some way.