>The gamers weren’t just Softdisk guys anymore, they were, as they called themselves, the IFD guys, co-owners of Ideas from the Deep. Softdisk, as a result, took on an even greater pallor. But it was a day job, a job they all needed since there was no real money coming in yet and no guarantee that it would come in at all. They decided, then, to continue working on titles for Gamers Edge during the day while they churned out Commander Keen from the lake house at night.
>They became all the more efficient at "borrowing" the Softdisk computers. Every night after work they’d back their cars up to the office and load the machines. The next morning they’d come in early enough to bring the com- puters back. They even got a little cocky about it. Though the machines were top of the line, they wanted some minor adjustments made..."
(again I think I need to write my "I was a 10x programmer until I got chronic fatigue" post)
Edit: Over time, 3 of my side projects allowed me to move country, take a 5 year 'sabbatical' (for me that mostly consisted of programming and repairing old 70-80s computers and developing new projects) and basically do whatever I like. If only for my 'main job' I would've not made that happen for a while (note; this was 8-9 years ago).
Us modern people have it incredibly easy with appliances doing the bulk of the chores home.