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> never a good time Perhaps your threshold is too high? The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Will your project actually fall apart without you? Even i
by 0_____0 2y ago
> never a good time
Perhaps your threshold is too high? The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Will your project actually fall apart without you? Even if it does, is that a reason to not treat burnout?
- Trasmatta 2y agoIt's not about the projects and more so about the money and living costs and the instability in the world. I also have some expensive chronic diseases, which is problematic in the US. I've thought about other options like part time contracting, though.
- 0_____0 2y agoHealth insurance that's tied to your employer is such a toxic pattern in the US, and it's so expensive to escape. I pay something like $550 a month because I'm not tied to a company and I'm young and healthy. I have a few friends who have moved to a contracting model within the hardware world and haven't gone back to W2. I think they've had some issues with managing workloads, because they'll typically have multiple overlapping clients who have no awareness of each other, so occasionally I hear about someone being booked solid for a month or something like that when busy phases overlap. Balanced sometimes by 10 hour weeks.