Well, Washwaver, you can always quit your job!
Just kidding, of course, though I must admit that I was in the same boat for about a decade, and did come to a point where I had to choose between taking the next step in my dream work and my job... and I did indeed quit my job! But that was me, and I was looking at advancing my work, not just maintaining it, so I got two things for you:
First, in my mind about 90% of successful LDing lies not in actually trying to have them, but in putting your mind in the sort of state that makes them come easily -- building a lucid mindset. Building that mindset is something you can do all day during waking-life, regardless of how busy you might be. Sure, a demanding job can make it harder to do RC's, stay focused on your presence in reality, or entertaining thoughts about dreaming (i.e., anything from imagining your surroundings to be a dream to planning your next LD to having fantasies about where LD'ing will take you), etc., but with a little practice and a lot of discipline you can keep LD'ing a priority during waking-life, and that priority might just be enough to build a lucid mindset that will bring on the lucids even during the shortest of sleep cycles (for instance, my best nights' sleep during my "heavy work" era were about 5 hrs per night, and I was lucid regularly). It seems as though you're already on this path, but try not to let work devour your grip on a lucid mindset.
Second, as Lenscaper mentioned, DILD might be the transition for you. Though I think 7 hrs' sleep is plenty for doing a WILD, what surrounds that sleep (i.e., a hard day's work, the need to get up early for the next day, anticipation of the next day's tasks) may well be too distracting to ever welcome a WBTB with focus and positive feelings. Instead, save your WBTB/WILD's for the weekend, and instead work on inducing DILD's during the week instead, with -- as you already noted --
MILD being the go-to technique, since it's built for folks who often dream of specific things, like work.
This way you will be helping yourself both by maintaining a lucid mindset during a period of your life when LD'ing is impractical while also developing new opportunities to insert, through DILD, LD's into your busy lifestyle.
So I guess the
tl;dr here is simple: Keep up your daywork, which in my mind should be the priority anyway, and move to practicing DILD transitions, with MILD as your technique. Save the WILD's for the weekend. 15 hour days aren't forever, but lucidity can be!
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