a weird thing i learned about myself recently that i don't actually like is that i'm a workaholic when it's something i care about. i've worked plenty of jobs where i definitely wasn't, and a couple where i probably should've been more of one, but my current job (where i have had the most design responsibility and freedom in any job) has really brought a bit of an obsessive side out in me. that + work from home/remote + european time zone coworkers leads to some self-fucked boundaries
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definitely felt this as well, even with more local studios some nights ive ended the day at around 9:30pm because I had to be on standby for builds/fixes. Everyone there seems to have been working that late too. I feel what im doing as a part of this is important and I'm fortunate to be working on it but yeah. Really wrecked on weekends
If I'm parsing this correctly I'm not sure I'd call this being a workaholic as much as I'd put it under "humans like spending time doing engaging stuff they enjoy" and "setting boundaries is hard". It can suck when one's job is so enjoyable you can't stop but at least, you know, you are getting some value out of the time you over-spend on it. This is coming from the assumption that you do enjoy your current job, of course.
But yeah, boundaries are hard, like pretty much every healthy thing.
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