I started working as sw dev in 1998. I remember being quite exhausted after work. Had a dial up connection at home, mostly used for chatting and napster, but I

I started working as sw dev in 1998. I remember being quite exhausted after work. Had a dial up connection at home, mostly used for chatting and napster, but I also continued working after hours, either on pc or laptop. There were floppies and cdrw's, so it was certainly possible to take work home or homework to work. Bottom line is that if you are very much invested in tech or work, it can be exhausting, even without any direct line to work. I dreamt about being connected to the internet wirelessly and roaming. As soon as that came in our pocket, it became handy (you can look up anything at any time) but also addictive. What i want to say... It's not the tech itself that supposedly made things worse, it is the habits that you make from them. If you tell your boss that you will not respond after hours or won't work late hours, that would take courage but today that is still plausible. Work/life balance should be a personally checked boundary, it takes practice and patience to get it right, no matter of whic era of tech.