As a young person who works parttime as data-analist next to my studies; I feel what you’re describing is part of growing older and being in a different phase

As a young person who works parttime as data-analist next to my studies; I feel what you’re describing is part of growing older and being in a different phase of life. What you mentioned is something that I have read more often. I feel that the only way for me to appreciate work like you do, is to currently work more than might be healthy. As wrong as that might seem, it seems very right to me. For instance, with my 16-hours/week I dont get done what I want. I’m sure it doesn’t matter in the long term, but there’s so many cool projects to do. I would love to be allowed to work in the evening to finish some cool stuff. I genuinely feel better after that. I expect to feel different about this after 15 years in the industry. Maybe that’s just how we learn, maybe it’s societal expectations that we try to live up to and stop caring about when we’re older.