Yes, yes it does. Mental fatigue from working a fucking set schedule that starts earlier than my body wants to every fucking week makes doing anything semi complicated during downtime exhausting.

When I take off a week and do what I want on my own schedule it is easy to get things I want to do done! Sure, I'm cutting lumber at 2 a.m. and using it two days later after getting sidetracked on something else the next morning, but I'm still doing the five total things I want to do over a reasonable time frame.