Looking to progress. feeling stuck

[JustGettingBy]

SO at the beginning of the lockdown I was (temporarily) laid off. I'm getting EI and disability, so money isn't nearly as much of an issue for me as others, at least compared to usual. However, I feel like I have very little I can do to feel 'productive'. I've been looking for better jobs (had been doing that already) and am able to put a couple of hours a day into side hustles. These side hustles:

-Were previous hobbies that I have turned into ways to generate extra income via royalties. Although I could spend more time per day, productivity has a tendency to diminish after a couple hours since its all creative work. After 3 or so hours of actual work per day, pushing myself more than that might actually be counter productive. Also, Since I enjoy them in these small doses and want to continue after going back to work, I don't want to work myself into hating them.

Even though I've been adding to my workout routine a little each day, and looking for actual work and taking a course online related to my field and reach out to one contact per day, spending only a couple hours per day doing work makes me feel lazy and unproductive. Does anyone else know ways I could 'improve myself', preferably ones that don't involve use of a screen (since everything listed here except for the workouts involves that).

 

Thanks.

 

[Realitysux]

1 hour ago, JustGettingBy said:

SO at the beginning of the lockdown I was (temporarily) laid off. I'm getting EI and disability, so money isn't nearly as much of an issue for me as others, at least compared to usual. However, I feel like I have very little I can do to feel 'productive'. I've been looking for better jobs (had been doing that already) and am able to put a couple of hours a day into side hustles. These side hustles:

-Were previous hobbies that I have turned into ways to generate extra income via royalties. Although I could spend more time per day, productivity has a tendency to diminish after a couple hours since its all creative work. After 3 or so hours of actual work per day, pushing myself more than that might actually be counter productive. Also, Since I enjoy them in these small doses and want to continue after going back to work, I don't want to work myself into hating them.

Even though I've been adding to my workout routine a little each day, and looking for actual work and taking a course online related to my field and reach out to one contact per day, spending only a couple hours per day doing work makes me feel lazy and unproductive. Does anyone else know ways I could 'improve myself', preferably ones that don't involve use of a screen (since everything listed here except for the workouts involves that).

 

Thanks.

 

How are you getting ei and disability? 

[JustGettingBy]

41 minutes ago, Realitysux said:

How are you getting ei and disability? 

 

Disability to provided by the provincial government since I have aspergers.

 

EI is provided by the national government after my layoff. I was getting disability (albiet only a very small amount) before my temp. layoff.