Hi my friends!

My apologies: I've not been online to dA for 8 weeks or more. I juste deleted about 1,650 deviations in my inbox without even looking at one of them - same with some dozens of journals, polls and news articles. I'm sorry, but the only alternative is to just log off again.

As some of you might know, I started working as a journalist 4 months ago. On a normal day, I work like 8-9 hours, which ist much, but not toooo much. I'm sure, some of you work more. So, I've got a question: How do you even manage to log in to dA regularly and even post pictures?
When I was a student, logging in was no problem. Some days I spent hours on dA, posted articles, deviations and wrote messages to friends as strangers (some of which became friends shortly after). But now? I leave home at 9-9:30am and come back 7-8pm. I don't know where to take the time to come here. A normal "session" of dA might require somwhat between 1 and 2 hours - an still then, not even a single photo is taken and uploaded.

To say the truth, I miss some of the motivation for dA. I take photos almost every day. They are taken for work. When I come home, my girlfriend is waiting. She's much more important to me than my camera. Yet, I miss taking pictures and I miss most of you, too. Then, there's still sport, which I hardly manage to do. And even if I have time enough to use my computer, I don't feel like doing so, because I sit in front of a screen most of the day.

Any ways out of this 'dilemma'? How can I motivate myself to visit dA?

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Yours... Malte






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