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by hmschreck
2572 days ago
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At my last job, I was getting paid $45k/yr and was expected to work 80-100 hours per week, on top of a 1.5 hour round-trip commute, because the other people on the team for the project were pulled to do other things that were deemed "more important", but the timeline for the project didn't shift at all, because it was also "vital". There's a really great Usenix talk about burnout I stumbled across, and it so perfectly described what I was feeling, even down to the fact that I found myself drinking more and more each night just to be functional. On paper, I took a pay cut at my next job, but I earned enough in overtime to more than make up for it, and I've gotten significant raises since then. |
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When your manager asks 200%, there's zero stress. It's like someone pointing a gun at you demanding you lasso the moon. It's funny. Because you see, whether you get shot or not does NOT depend on whether you try. Therefore it's a sunk cost. There's no point worrying about it. In fact, there's very good reasons to be very easy going about it. No point shortening any break.
The same with your manager. He asks the impossible, and of course you won't deliver. So whatever will happen, has already happened. It does NOT depend on your level of effort. Whether you get blamed ... is already determined at that point. Whether you get fired ... is a done deal. No point worrying about it, as the decision is made. Find an online course, or watch some esports on Youtube. Put in the hours, but ...
It's no more worrying than the idea that an asteroid might be (in fact almost certainly is) on a collision course with the earth right now.