I had a different experience solving similar problems. When I started working in Spain as an engineer I solved problems like that in the article, very hard, re

I had a different experience solving similar problems. When I started working in Spain as an engineer I solved problems like that in the article, very hard, requiring people with very high technical skills. Companies creating big problems because short term mentality made the bluff to accumulate until emergency came. There was an important distinction with the protestant-puritan mentality of the US. After doing all the hard work and saving the company I was paid in peanuts and more work, filling all my time and making my life miserable. Emergencies bring enormous social pressure over you, you overwork and it is painful. They called you because "short term" mentality but solving the problem always takes more time that what they demand you take. It must be done for yesterday. The big bucks were given to the people that took the bad decisions in the first place at the top. I went to Asia and the culture was even worse, albeit this time I was benefiting from that. Then I discovered places in the world where hard work was rewarded. It is a very small part of the world. Most of the world does not work the way the Silicon Valley does, and even there socialism is coming to those places too. So I won't recommend that you work harder unless you are rewarded from it, that is your culture rewards you for that or you have your own business and work gives you an advantage. I would recommend the opposite, simplify your life so you need to work less, make other people(delegate) or specially machines do the hard work for you. Do not embrace toxic relationships. Let companies in eternal emergency mode burn and die, and work for(or create) those that do the right thing.