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Exactly. If you love what you're doing and feel challenged in the _right_ way, 17 hour days will generally feel like a difficult but worthwhile gift. Back in
by Danihan 9y ago
Exactly. If you love what you're doing and feel challenged in the _right_ way, 17 hour days will generally feel like a difficult but worthwhile gift.
Back in the day, I used to love working 16-20 hour shifts (unlimited overtime) in a tech-support call center. I was in my early twenties, and while most people hated tech support, I felt like every call I took got people connected to the internet, where who knew what they could accomplish, look-up, research, etc. I was genuinely helping hundreds of people a day get online, it felt great.
Versus, if you hate hate hate what you're doing, you'll feel burned out after a few hours a week. And you could fall anywhere in between too. I've felt both extremes working in the same position at different times, depending on the circumstances.
- jblow 9y agoI don't think it has to be explicit hate-of-the-job for burnout to occur. For me personally it was just lack of meaning in that job. I didn't, deep down, feel that it was very important, or the right thing for me to be doing. It was just the thing I was doing because I didn't have anything better to do.