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Wake up at 5am. Leave house at 6am. Usually leave office around 5:30-6pm. 2 out of 5 days of the week I would leave the office at about 7pm. Go to the gym every other night at around 9pm. Remaining time in the evening between here and there I would be working on my application as a personal venture while having the tv on and a beer on the side.
My boyfriend recently told me he'd never seen anyone work as much as I do and that I'm a workaholic. Do I fit into this crowd? Should I worry about burn-out in a few years?
Wake up at 5am. Leave house at 6am. Usually leave office around 5:30-6pm. 2 out of 5 days of the week I would leave the office at about 7pm. Go to the gym every other night at around 9pm. Remaining time in the evening between here and there I would be working on my application as a personal venture while having the tv on and a beer on the side.
My boyfriend recently told me he'd never seen anyone work as much as I do and that I'm a workaholic. Do I fit into this crowd? Should I worry about burn-out in a few years?
When you said your application, I knew the commonality.
If you get wrapped up in a project that you personally care about, that's when "work" stops being work and becomes your part time hobby as well. The fact that they're the same thing makes you think you're a workaholic, but it's really just the combination of work and a hobby.
You pretty much describe my schedule, though I'll tend to stay up later and go in later.
Burn out is only a risk if you get bored. If you enjoy it, you should be fine.
Around 6:30 or so depending on traffic. I don't have a set time I need to be in. One of the good things about having my own office and a white collar job. I can also go off do my own thing anytime I want or need to. For example, today I had traffic court (I got the ticket dismissed woohoo).
You are definitely a workaholic. I don't get how you can be so productive on such little sleep. I need 7-9 hours of sleep just to be productive for 40 hours of work a week, and that's at a job that I love.
But is your workaholicism a bad thing? Maybe that's the real question. If it's not affecting your health and your relationships, and you are happy, then keep doing what you are doing. Whether or not you will experience burn out is personal. Different people have different tolerance levels for high workload. I got burned out of 60 hours a week of work within about six months, but I have colleagues who did the same job I did at the same number of hours and never experienced burn out.
If you're working to avoid other things or people in your life, that's a workaholic. If you're working because you want to get ahead, are dedicated, driven and like what you do, that's just called life and being an adult.
Yup, today is Tuesday, and with the amount of work I have left, I don't see myself leaving the office before 7 tonight.
Here's what I see.
You claim "too much work, have to stay late", but spend enough time browsing CD forums to read a bunch of threads and post 10X per day. Likely, this isn't the only web surfing or "multitasking" you do in an average day. That's not "too much work", that's a priority set.
Your SO has pointed out that he feels you're working too much - could be his way of saying that you spend too much time focusing on other people/things/activities and not enough on him. Might not be, but who knows?
Multiple studies have shown that productivity and efficacy drops pretty dramatically after about 6 weeks of 40+ hour work weeks. Doesn't matter if you love what you do, your brain simply needs to perform diverse activities and rest. There's also the concept of work-pace inertia, wherein you will actually take 8 hours of work and stretch it into 10-12 - after long periods of "working" late. Thus, the trips downtown for court dates and CD forum forays.
In short. No, you're not a workaholic - but you're likely to be a very inefficient worker. Work smarter, not harder and longer.
You claim "too much work, have to stay late", but spend enough time browsing CD forums to read a bunch of threads and post 10X per day. Likely, this isn't the only web surfing or "multitasking" you do in an average day. That's not "too much work", that's a priority set.
Your SO has pointed out that he feels you're working too much - could be his way of saying that you spend too much time focusing on other people/things/activities and not enough on him. Might not be, but who knows?
Multiple studies have shown that productivity and efficacy drops pretty dramatically after about 6 weeks of 40+ hour work weeks. Doesn't matter if you love what you do, your brain simply needs to perform diverse activities and rest. There's also the concept of work-pace inertia, wherein you will actually take 8 hours of work and stretch it into 10-12 - after long periods of "working" late. Thus, the trips downtown for court dates and CD forum forays.
In short. No, you're not a workaholic - but you're likely to be a very inefficient worker. Work smarter, not harder and longer.
You claim "too much work, have to stay late", but spend enough time browsing CD forums to read a bunch of threads and post 10X per day. Likely, this isn't the only web surfing or "multitasking" you do in an average day. That's not "too much work", that's a priority set.
Your SO has pointed out that he feels you're working too much - could be his way of saying that you spend too much time focusing on other people/things/activities and not enough on him. Might not be, but who knows?
Multiple studies have shown that productivity and efficacy drops pretty dramatically after about 6 weeks of 40+ hour work weeks. Doesn't matter if you love what you do, your brain simply needs to perform diverse activities and rest. There's also the concept of work-pace inertia, wherein you will actually take 8 hours of work and stretch it into 10-12 - after long periods of "working" late. Thus, the trips downtown for court dates and CD forum forays.
In short. No, you're not a workaholic - but you're likely to be a very inefficient worker. Work smarter, not harder and longer.
Well, first of all...
The nature of my work prevents me from doing an 8 hour straight shift. I'm an engineer and construction manager. What this means is as long as there's stuff going on I can't leave. Between what goes on out there (3 job sites with about 3-4 crews each) and what goes on in the office, it's impossible for me to leave at regular hours. Think of the earliest person that comes in and the latest person that goes out. The nature of my job makes me both of those people.
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