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Set boundaries.
If you’re forced to work late or early, take a long mid-day break and workout or take a long lunch.
Take advantage of bench time.
Know what you can/absolutely have to say yes to and say no anything else you can.
Manage your own calendar and schedule. Remember that we often think work will take half the time it actually does. If you’re heading toward running over hours, have conversations sooner rather than later.
Hopefully it’s part of your culture to be able to unplug weekends or at night if not working on a 911 project (which, also hopefully, are the exception and not the norm).
Don’t be afraid to tell your manager when you feel like you’re burning out. No job is worth your mental health. And if you burn out on the job itself and quit, they’ll have to replace you, and no company wants to replace high performers who voluntarily left because of poor WLB.
Take vacations. There will never be a good time. The work will always be there. The best teams I’ve been on is where everyone takes a bit of time a way to recharge and everyone else just covers down in their absence. The consulting lifestyle is not sustainable. Without some time of to recharge something will eventually break.
Chief
Outside work, I make sure I do a couple things I love everyday. Usually that's going for a swim and/or cycling, enjoying a good coffee in one of my favorite cafes, and spending time with my dog (playing, a walk, whatever).
In regards to work, boundaries, standards, and certain practices I've always followed (delete most email unread, turn off notifications on phone and laptop 24/7, block off admin time every day to respond to those emails and IMs I didn't delete or read yet, never respond to/acknowledge night/weekend stuff, say No often, work smarter not harder/longer, knock every project out of the park so no one's ever on my back about anything, be a mentor/advisor/coach to others, take time off regularly, etc).
Chief
I stop seeking validation from others and do me. If everyone on the planet worked 80 hours a week no one would care.
As a human being, we need to rest, sleep and work out regularly to be mentally and physically well. No workaround. Talk to your manager if you are working 15 hours a day, sometimes you just need more free time before things get better.
Don’t do anything until being asked twice
Very interesting take - obviously sometimes you know said task has to get done.. but I’ve actually not done a few tasks I was asked to do before and my MD never asked about it again so I’m really glad I did nothing at all
Well I took a role with my current company because they kept taking 30 day vacations while I was a consultant for them. I couldn’t get anything done. I thought to myself these guys hired me as a consultant so they didn’t have to work. So now I’m an employee hiring more consultants so I can be absent like 50% of the time. On Fridays we don’t even fake it. The company goes on call, full pay. We’ll show up for a prod outage. Now I realize consulting is just a flexible temporary work force that lives in fear of the bench.
I don’t work that hard