But mostly I count the seconds until I can get the hell out of there, and it's another night gone, another piece of my life consigned to the dustbin.

*nod*

That's why my day job frustrates me too. I sit there all day at my desk feeling like I'm wasting my time when I could be working on stuff like LD50. I can and have done "outside" work on business time, but I have to be very careful, because getting canned from my rent-paying job would suck large.