Work 60 Hours a Week. Burn Out. Reach the Brink of Mental Exhaustion. Then Get Fired to Save a Few Dollars.
Here’s a better way
The idea of a 9-5 job makes me cry.
When you slice and dice it, it’s a hodgepodge of hot mess.
The headline of this article comes from fellow writer Justin Welsh. His LinkedIn post bricked me in the face when I read it. Let’s rip the heads off his ideas and then go through a way better way.
The slow-cooked frog on its way to a speedy death
That’s how 9-5 jobs feel to me after escaping the corporate rat race.
You’re inside this huge corporate pot of water. The heat slowly gets turned up as you start a job at 40 hours per week and the tasks get thrown over the fence at you until they continue to pile up a mountain high.
Not everything in your career crashes and burns right away. You experience what I call intermittent burnout. Some weeks you’re fine. Other weeks it feels like you could walk away from it all despite the financial consequences.
As more of your free time gets vacuumed up by work, the time leftover for “play” vanishes into a black hole. Eventually you get smashed in the head by mental exhaustion.
