You were not being micromanaged, and you were not sitting in a soulless, fluorescent cubicle next to 50 other drones being forced to do the same.
The environment and how workers are treated is just as much to blame as the total hours worked per week. Possibly more so.
I am a contract educator. Before COVID I was practically working sunup to sundown every single day of the week barring national holidays and I loved it. Because I am my own boss, it involves lots of travel, and I get to play with kids all day.
Before COVID I was practically working sunup to sundown every single day of the week
That’s like 5h work days 1/4 of the year…must be nice
Lol found the European/Yankee
Down here in the South even in winter you’ve got easy 8hrs of daylight depending on where you are
Scandinavian, but yeah i was mostly joking with how useless “sunup to sundown” is as a measure of time b3cause it varies wildly by season and location.
That makes sense haha. Yeah, it threw me off when I traveled to the UK in winter the first time after living in the US southeast my whole life. Got dark at like 4pm, my head was spinning XD
As fulfilling as the work itself was, the resulting negativity still negated it.
Putting forth a Herculean effort and having it be thankless or worse destroys you in a unique way.
