Tons of respect for making the right call - that's hard to do, but you know you'll never regret it in the long run.
Do you think those 16 hours would've really been more productive than if the environment/culture allowed for, say, 15 hours and you'd have 1 hour more for just "life". Or even as far as 12.
Curious whether it really becomes net positive productivity. I feel like it really doesn't work to push past a certain point so I'm wondering more and more why the hell do we all do it so often haha?
Oh, I wasn't forced to work 16 hours. It wasn't crunch-time, or anything. The company and the team was reasonably supportive about work-life balance.
But the project I was working on was very interesting, my tasks were also pretty interesting, the team was mostly assembled of competent people, and I enjoyed every second I spent on the project - I actually tried to spend as much time on it as I could. Was almost like an addiction... I just kind of neglected many other things.
Woah that's funny I feel like your putting to words something I've felt many times haha. The addiction/interest + neglect of other stuff has happened to me more times than I care to admit.
Do you think those 16 hours would've really been more productive than if the environment/culture allowed for, say, 15 hours and you'd have 1 hour more for just "life". Or even as far as 12.
Curious whether it really becomes net positive productivity. I feel like it really doesn't work to push past a certain point so I'm wondering more and more why the hell do we all do it so often haha?