The problem with work ethic

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Started by the-pi-guy, Aug 10, 2019, 04:54 PM

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I think 80 hour work weeks are fine, but the ethic of thinking anything else is underperforming is definitely bad. Sometimes I'll be working on cool stuff and 100 hour work weeks breeze by without me really thinking about it. If you're in the flow and mixing up your tasks it isn't taxing. Alternatively if I'm just stuck doing something like rewriting a function over and over aimlessly, even 40 hours can seem too long. It's really important to take a good amount of breaks. Too few and you end up experiencing burnout, and too many and you just avoid dealing with the problem.