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I'm a young male working in cyber security, but before this i was a trained cocktail barman/supervisor. this means i worked weekends, 12 hour shifts, holidays,
by who-knows95 8y ago
I'm a young male working in cyber security, but before this i was a trained cocktail barman/supervisor. this means i worked weekends, 12 hour shifts, holidays, whatever was needed to keep the bar running. (i felt super burned out, and i was only doing this 4 days a week)
now i work in a office, doing this cyber security work. i would never stay past 5:30, i'd never forgo PTO, or force myself to over work myself beyond respectable limits.
“This is paid time that employees accrued by choosing not to take vacation days, and instead do their work at BuzzFeed,”
when i read things like this it just strengthens my feelings towards it.
is this the right attitude?
- guitarbill 8y ago> now i work in a office, doing this cyber security work. i would never stay past 5:30, i'd never forgo PTO, or force myself to over work myself beyond respectable limits. > is this the right attitude? being professional and setting boundaries is absolutely the right attitude. it's just a job.
- who-knows95 8y agothank you
- ghaff 8y agoI tend to avoid the word "never" and, among other things, I do a lot of work travel that certainly involves working past 5:30 (in whatever timezone). I'm not opposed to checking in now and then on weekends or evenings. But I've always taken my earned PTO (which has generally been pretty good for the US) over many decades. I've taken multiple month-long trips. And I don't feel pressure to work into the night on anything like a regular basis.
- who-knows95 8y agothat is true, i guess its more situational, than black/white. when you say, "month long trips" are those holidays or work related?
- ghaff 8y agoMonth long trips were vacations. And at a time when I was really off the grid. Though I’m currently on the road for 3 weeks for (mostly) a business trip with some off days in between stops.
- who-knows95 8y agogetting close to the digital nomad life
- ghaff 8y agoI think the mindset is different. I’m not sleeping in my bed about 35-40% of nights but I’m usually not crashing with friends or just working remotely from a location. And I actually own a house so I do have a base.
- who-knows95 8y agofair enough, i think the digital nomad life is pretty good tbh.