[opportune]

It depends on what you do at work a lot I think.

Working on greenfield projects is so much less mentally draining than working on some old thing with only 10% of its functionality encoded in tribal knowledge that interacts with like a 100 different services that you need to constantly be learning about.

[mc3]

Definitely. Greenfield is rare in my experience though. And there is greenfield solo (awesome) and greenfield team of 20 all chucking code in (instant legacy!)

[non-entity]

Most of the time I'm doing nothing at work all day, yet I manage to pass out for 3 hours of exhaustion after I get hone