3 ms·
Completely agree. After a few years as a startup founder (ie: in super high stress environment), I now no longer work anywhere where time outside of contractual
by dkersten 7y ago
Completely agree. After a few years as a startup founder (ie: in super high stress environment), I now no longer work anywhere where time outside of contractual work hours are not 100% mine, I don't do "on call" anymore and won't work anywhere that contractually asks me to work longer than normal for my country hours or on weekends.
This means that I leave/stop as soon as the day ends and am not reachable for work stuff.
Yes, I will make the occasional exception when it really is an emergency, but in return I expect that the company makes occasional exceptions for me when I need some flexibility.
Its been much less stressful.
- johnsimer 7y agoI'm about to make this transition I'm kind of worried that my skills will atrophy because I'll be working less, but I almost dont care at this point, because I'll finally have a social life
- WorldMaker 7y agoThere's productivity studies that argue that your skills are as likely to atrophy when overworked (one factor in burn out), and that especially for things like programming skills the best daily skill usage ratio is much closer to 4 hours per day tops than to the 8 hour work day, much less the 12+ hours per day often encouraged in startup culture.
- watwut 7y agoYou will atrophy when you never learn new things. Time off does not prevent you to learn.
- dkersten 7y agoYes, it can even give you more opportunities that you otherwise would have missed.
- shantly 7y agoI think what you're working on has a much bigger effect on skill improvement/retention than hours worked, except maybe for retaining large amounts of trivia.