Thank you for sharing, I see more of where you’re coming from. > burnout was the result of clocking in every day to do what felt like meaningless work This is

Thank you for sharing, I see more of where you’re coming from. > burnout was the result of clocking in every day to do what felt like meaningless work This is a lesson I was grateful to have picked up from HN about a year ago. The thread is at [0], and the quote from the submitted article was: “Don’t half-work just to put in the hours. It’s better to give full effort half the day and then be done. Cultivating an ass-in-seat mentality is harmful to myself. When needed, give full effort all day, exceed expectations and demand compensation.” This helped motivate a personal decision to leave a job where initiative and extra effort wasn’t noticed or rewarded (despite planning to stay a while due to inertia), and only seek work where I’m empowered to do the best work I can. I plan to avoid mistaking my identity for my job position at a company, but I would like to similarly aspire to be a professional who cares about doing good work for the user (versus just clocking in). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27328705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27328705