I feel that. I had one job for years. CEO threatened to disparage me if I quit, and they were very well connected. I was pretty miserable and do not even realize how miserable I was. I figured I had just started losing my hair at a young age.
I had a pretty large incident that lead to a broken knee, ribs, and hand. The team was mostly distributed and the C-suite was all in town. CEO insisted on holding a meeting at my house because everyone was in town. I remember none of it, I was catatonic in bed. I’m told everyone found the scenario one of the most uncomfortable professional experiences ever.
About a year after leaving I went from 6 hours of sleep to 8-9. My hair regrew. Took a couple years more to get over the anxiety that came with NOT working on holidays.
It’s wild how miserable I was and bore through it. It makes me enormously grateful to be working at a great company that actually disabled your GitHub if you’re working too much.
I had a pretty large incident that lead to a broken knee, ribs, and hand. The team was mostly distributed and the C-suite was all in town. CEO insisted on holding a meeting at my house because everyone was in town. I remember none of it, I was catatonic in bed. I’m told everyone found the scenario one of the most uncomfortable professional experiences ever.
About a year after leaving I went from 6 hours of sleep to 8-9. My hair regrew. Took a couple years more to get over the anxiety that came with NOT working on holidays.
It’s wild how miserable I was and bore through it. It makes me enormously grateful to be working at a great company that actually disabled your GitHub if you’re working too much.