Hi all,

How do you organize yourselves to stay afloat when you're basically responsible for running everything across 3/4/5 projects, plus proposals and other random tasks that come left and right from client who want everything last week, let alone having to handle all the slack created by the abysmal performance of your "support team" (we basically have a support Team that helps us deal with support teams...)
I'm going thru hell right now, not far from a nervous breakdown tbh

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Even the admin, it's like: our work pays your salary, not the other way around. We respect you, we have no issue with you, but just HELP US ! any given week I have (in a normal situation) around 1 day in hours equivalent going to Admin workflows.
These last weeks, it's been 4.5 days of hour equivalent going to Admin, with no value add

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Hey M!
You have a few rational options which you probably already considered, such as dropping quality and standards which would free some time, etc.
however, some teams will be toxic and let you work every minute you have, even though it‘s unproductive.

The world will be the exact same if you are stressed vs not-stressed. Never forget this!
Sometimes all we can do is… care less about others and do more for yourself.

If you want to maintain your current lifestyle, just remember yourself of why you are doing it.

You will be fine in the end! Good luck my friend and don’t forget to call your friend for a good laugh :)

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