Agreed on the value of "backroom" tasks. Always in demand!
I have two or three specific things I'd like to be devoting more of my energies to right now. One is a manga title I'm working on. Another is my doctorate. A third is a card game I'm developing. I'd say those are the top three efforts I'd be putting my energies into if I didn't have a day job. So I suppose I've already scheduled my leisure.
The only reason the manga got listed before the doctorate, btw, is that it's summer, so that's what I'm working on currently. The card game is actually ready to go, but too expensive to print (especially after one printer failed to deliver and still owes me money), so I'm working with my brother and his slave labor--er-- students to develop an online card game server that will not only make my game available, but will be able to host original games developed by others. It's astoundingly expensive to get card games printed at anything like professional quality.
