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Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by bargl »

This is an awesome way to quantify the happiness you feel as a order of time. I wish I did this on a daily basis so that I could see the things that contribute and take away from my personal happiness. I tend to be a pretty introspective guy so I think about this kind of stuff on a regular basis, but I'd be curious to see if analyzing when I'm working out, vs playing videogames has an affect on my real happiness VS the blah feeling that you get when you are able to turn your brain off for a bit.

Kudos on this, and I assume there's a link to how you track your happiness in there somewhere. I've got to dive deeper.

Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by zeus_hammer »

This is great! I wish I'd started doing something like this long ago. The closest thing I've found to this that I'm able to at least remind myself to use regularly is this, https://daylio.webflow.io/

It'd be interesting to leverage something like this to decide when I should take vacation... If my happiness is slowly decreasing and visualized like this, it'd serve as a nice reminder to schedule some vacation. I'd also be interested to see how long after vacations the "high" wears off

Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by patorjk »

In principle it's an interesting idea, however, I'm not sure how meaningful this kind of tracking is. Even the author seems to wonder about this - rating a work day as an 8, but realizing it was the relaxing he did that day that effected his happiness. And unless you're reflecting back weeks when making your rating, this kind of tracking could be susceptible to the idea of "boiling the frog".

Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by mrmikes »

bargl wrote: post #2

This is an awesome way to quantify the happiness you feel as a order of time. I wish I did this on a daily basis so that I could see the things that contribute and take away from my personal happiness. I tend to be a pretty introspective guy so I think about this kind of stuff on a regular basis, but I'd be curious to see if analyzing when I'm working out, vs playing videogames has an affect on my real happiness VS t…

Yeah, agreed, it seems valuable to track your happiness and the factors that contributed to (or detracted from) it. Looks like there are a few apps for this like: https://www.trackyourhappiness.org/

Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by ben_jones »

zeus_hammer wrote: post #3

This is great! I wish I'd started doing something like this long ago. The closest thing I've found to this that I'm able to at least remind myself to use regularly is this, https://daylio.webflow.io/ It'd be interesting to leverage something like this to decide when I should take vacation... If my happiness is slowly decreasing and visualized like this, it'd serve as a nice reminder to schedule some vacation. I'd als…

I've always wanted to make a CLI with the same functionality, will definitely check daylio out. Data export is a big deal for me when it comes to using journaling type apps, because who knows if the developer is going to support iOS 13,14,15.. in the future.

Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by brandoncordell »

Joller wrote: post #4

asd

> Haha, when someone calls themselves an engineer without being more specific, it's almost always either a civil engineer or software developer.

You went on to assume that he's a software engineer when in fact his is a civil engineer.

Also because you didn't like software development it's weird that someone else might?

Re: Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career

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Post by guhcampos »

I don't want to sound an asshole, but I will sound an assholle nevertheless.

I was damn happy as one can be at 3.5 years in my career. 10 years in, I feel like my happiness and awesomeness has been slowly consumed by corporate politics, unfair promotions and layoffs, bad work ethics and the such.

I still like my work. I really really enjoy it when it's productive, and I still feel amazed to see the green checkmark on my CI after a long and challenging git push - but after so many years and a couple companies it's just work.

There are some real cool places and projects to work though, you just need to dig through the "look we're cool let us enslave you" crap.

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