at so many jobs, you are only as valued as the last big thing you did, and that is just impossible to sustain when you get older and have kids etc... your menta

at so many jobs, you are only as valued as the last big thing you did, and that is just impossible to sustain when you get older and have kids etc... your mental and physical health must be your first priority, once you lose those, a) it is guaranteed you would get fired anyway and b) these things don't heal as rapidly once you start getting older. So my advice in all that is prioritize yourself first and take risks (even risks that require you to push yourself to the edge) but only if those risks enable you to someday be ok with the consequences of what you had to do. Acceptable Risk: I'm working my ass of for a company which has promise and the work i'm doing here is directly valuable and is teaching me many things. Even if this doesn't work out i would have been richer for having experienced it. UnAcceptable Risk: At my big corp, i've worked 50 tickets this year at almost burnout pace while my coworkers only worked 25 (aren't i the man?)