There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
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Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#2You obviously lack passion.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#3You obviously lack passion.
Beat horses and they'll run faster...for a while
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#4All work and no play will eventually burn most people out as it's very unbalanced. At 90 hrs a week there couldn't have been time for much else.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#5Yeah fuck any place that wants you to work 90 hours a week. Stay only until you can find a better job.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#6Yeah fuck any place that wants you to work 90 hours a week. Stay only until you can find a better job.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#7In the menagerie of death marches I've been a party to throughout my ~20yr career. Every single one of them was predicated on a team that was, in aggregate, a low-performing team, so we were all having to work so much to make up for the lack of ability and/or preparedness of others, and those others were having to work so much to compensate for not being particularly good at their jobs, and taking on way more responsibility than they should have. Earlier in my career I'd sometimes be one of those "other" people too.
On high-functioning teams with half-way decent product management I've never once experienced a need for consistent, unrelenting "overworking".
My advice to anyone who finds themselves in a situation of constant overworking is to step back, realize that this is only happening because one or more people are in way over their head (could be anyone from ICs up to Execs), and try to figure out who it is. If it's you (even if you're CEO or CTO), then you'd do literally everybody (including yourself) a huge favor by finding a way to extricate yourself from the situation and figure out a more suitable set of responsibilities that you can execute on in a timely and predictable manner.
It's not easy to be that introspective and honest with oneself and one's peers about the team dynamic, but if that kind of meta-analysis can be adopted and exercised, then you'll end up enjoying your work a whole lot more.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#8Yeah fuck any place that wants you to work 90 hours a week. Stay only until you can find a better job.
Even that might be too long in some cases. Living out of a car and eating only dog biscuits while you work on portfolio pieces and find a better job is a preferable option for some fraction of people without families. No joke at all.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#9You obviously lack passion.
You obviously lack a life.
Re: There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
#10Have any of you come across recent research papers on this from STEM engineers and medical professionals inside and outside of academia?