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| Design engineers: Can you shut off your brain during non-work hours? |
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| Nominal Animal:
To many of us, this is just how our brain works. My advice is to not be afraid of getting professional help, if some aspect of it starts negatively affecting your life. It is no different to e.g. an athlete getting medical help with stress fractures in their bones. I did not, and instead did the typical Finnish male thing – "through the gray stone", as the saying goes – and silently just grit my teeth and redoubled my efforts, and it slowly but utterly broke me. There isn't much I regret in life, but the one thing is not acknowledging my unhealthy work environment and habits, and seeking professional help and change a decade earlier. |
| Bud:
--- Quote from: hans on June 13, 2023, 06:08:06 pm ---Some people may be optimistic and say I'm loyal and have a huge feeling of responsibility. --- End quote --- Remember and write this on the wall: There is no such thing as loyalty to your company. Your company will get rid of you as soon as they see it fit. |
| Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: Bud on June 14, 2023, 02:00:51 am --- --- Quote from: hans on June 13, 2023, 06:08:06 pm ---Some people may be optimistic and say I'm loyal and have a huge feeling of responsibility. --- End quote --- Remember and write this on the wall: There is no such thing as loyalty to your company. Your company will get rid of you as soon as they see it fit. --- End quote --- Truth! But that's not what drove me and kept me awake at night. I just couldn't quit thinking about a problem. Even after it had already been solved or had been irrelevant by changing something else. I found that one thing helped was to stop working on something when I had some kind of success. I used to just press on to the next part of the problem but I found that if I quit and walked away after having some success, that I could sleep better that night. The last big headache (problem) that I had took me about six days to fully resolve but I only worked on it for anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours per day. But it didn't tie me up in knots thinking about it. |
| CatalinaWOW:
There is very little or no "company" loyalty. But individual managers/owners may show loyalty. What does exist is evaluation of value. Often done poorly, but companies want to have high production per pay employees. If it takes off hour work to be recognized as high value you have to do your own evaluation of whether the job is worth it to you. You have to consider pay, security, enjoyment of the work and a variety of other things. There is no one size fits all rule for this. Someone in a job rich area, with no family obligations and a broad range of skills and interests will have greatly different answers than someone who has niche skills developed because that is his life's fascination combined with other obligations that tie them to an area or employer. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 14, 2023, 01:55:18 am ---To many of us, this is just how our brain works. --- End quote --- Well, you wouldn't want to shut your brain off. It doesn't end well. ;D --- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 14, 2023, 01:55:18 am ---My advice is to not be afraid of getting professional help, if some aspect of it starts negatively affecting your life. It is no different to e.g. an athlete getting medical help with stress fractures in their bones. I did not, and instead did the typical Finnish male thing – "through the gray stone", as the saying goes – and silently just grit my teeth and redoubled my efforts, and it slowly but utterly broke me. There isn't much I regret in life, but the one thing is not acknowledging my unhealthy work environment and habits, and seeking professional help and change a decade earlier. --- End quote --- Yeah, cheesy I know, but you should always try having a balanced life. You can't shut your brain off, but you can try getting it busy with varied things that will help it not obsessing. |
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