Otis
Footballguy
Anyone else have this problem? Your sacrifice too many important things for work. When you “work from home,” you find yourself getting frustrated with the family because even though you stayed home to help out thinking it would be a quiet day, everyone and his mother decides they need to email you requesting something that day, or asking you to jump on emergency calls or whatever. When work slows, you’re almost so PTSD’d out from it all that it’s hard to “disconnect” and get refocused on what really matters in life. Even when things are slower at work, which is more rare these days, I find myself often off in a corner e-mailing, networking, brainstorming on what more I can do. I’m halfway through my life, if I’m lucky, and I worry that one day I’ll look back and feel it was all wasted on the completely wrong things. It’s not like I’m saving the world either, or doing something that should justify the extent of the sacrifice I make.
The weird thing for me is I was never really a “gunner.” I had good grades as a young child, but not due to effort. I didn’t study much until post-grad, and even then I was just “ok.” When I first started in my profession, I wasn’t a super hard worker. It sort of happened to me, slowly, over time. I bought in. And now I’m here. And I’m probably a workaholic.
Anyone else feel like this? How do you manage it?
Early Merry Christmas to all my GBs.
The weird thing for me is I was never really a “gunner.” I had good grades as a young child, but not due to effort. I didn’t study much until post-grad, and even then I was just “ok.” When I first started in my profession, I wasn’t a super hard worker. It sort of happened to me, slowly, over time. I bought in. And now I’m here. And I’m probably a workaholic.
Anyone else feel like this? How do you manage it?
Early Merry Christmas to all my GBs.