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If you don't like a role, pivot. Not everyone can (or should) be a manager, and whatever you do you should not hate. Note I'm not saying a job should be lovable, just that it is a means to an end and should not be intolerable, for those of us who lucked into easy roles (keyboard instead of a shovel). For OP and everyone here, why do you let your job have such a negative impact on life? I'm reading in this post's comments about long hours (the least of the problem), crippling stress leading to physical symptoms, sleep problems, etc. And it is a common theme in many places. What prevents you from defining a reasonable work day / week, and simply letting that did not get accomplished today / this week roll into the next? If your work does not directly save lives, what will fail if left to the next work day? Will people die? Will the business fail tomorrow, leaving you an everyone out of work? Doctors, nurses, field emergency personnel must respond immediately and for as long as it takes. I doubt that few of us whose primary tool is a keyboard have the same impact. I'm not being snarky here, and when younger struggled for balance between work and literally everything else which was more important. It took a while to learn that if your gig requires heroics for non-heroic business outcomes, answer which to hop ASAP (The only way to win is to not play the game). The difference is back then there was not the level of public discourse then as today (pre-internet forums). I'd like to think I would have done some things differently if HN and r/antiwork were available to give me some perspective from others. Another take is if your situation is one of chasing a Big Payout while scraping by, have you looked hard at the odds? Everyone I have worked with who sacrificed family and fun for an "Exit" did not see it, or the value was so diluted simple math told them they were working for something approaching minimum wage. The sacrifice did not add up, except for a few "founders", which as a term became a red-flag for me. I'm not saying exits with big bucks are not possible, just more rare than people want to believe. The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world is that our jobs is what we are defined by. |