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This sounds like my life. I come from poverty and now I make decent money and my company doesn’t request this. I have really been trying to figure out how to tu

This sounds like my life. I come from poverty and now I make decent money and my company doesn’t request this. I have really been trying to figure out how to turn it off, or at least down. It’s very hard. I get depressed and a bit paranoid if I’m not martyring myself for work.

noir_lord 8y ago
Pick one day a week, doesn't matter which one, finish early and plan an activity you enjoy. Hell or high water stick to that activity on that day. You'll naturally start to look forwards to that day. Then make it two days and so on. Don't try to make massive changes, make little ones that become habits. As someone who went from working 70 hours a week (or more technically in hindsight sitting behind a computer for 70 hours and working for maybe 30 of those productively to working 37 hrs a week with about the same level of productivity) it matters.
xiphias2 8y ago
Focus on investing your money, building up an asset portfolio (I suggest commodities over stocks/housing in the current market, but that's not the important part here). Your financial future should depend on your wealth compounding, and not on your number of promotions. And of course for wealth compounding timing is key: the earlier you start the better it will be for you over time.