>The more you value your out-of-the-office life and the more enjoyment you gain from it, the less negative impact your job can have on your life. This 1000 tim

>The more you value your out-of-the-office life and the more enjoyment you gain from it, the less negative impact your job can have on your life. This 1000 times. There was nothing physically challenging about the work that burned me out. I wasn't starving to death, I could stop doing it at any time (in theory), and it would have been perfectly manageable for someone in a stronger mental state than me. It was the all consuming, this-work-is-my-life attitude that allowed it to become something so crippling.