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Not trying to complain but I’m just so tired all the time

My job is great. It’s challenging and rewarding and demands all of my attention. My coworkers and boss is awesome too. But during the 8-4, I am constantly making decisions and actualizing them. I have no time to think through my work, only do do do. So when I go home, my brain stays at work and in a week I must spend and additional 15 hours thinking through project problem. I don’t get paid for it. I hate it. I can’t stop doing it. I need help on how to change this. I come home exhausted every day and don’t have any energy for the rest of life’s administrative tasks or anything else enjoyable. I’m growing to resent my 40 hour a week desk job for taking 60 of my brain hours (I’m including commuting time) and feel like if I worked 3 days a week, I could get…


My job is great. It’s challenging and rewarding and demands all of my attention. My coworkers and boss is awesome too. But during the 8-4, I am constantly making decisions and actualizing them. I have no time to think through my work, only do do do. So when I go home, my brain stays at work and in a week I must spend and additional 15 hours thinking through project problem. I don’t get paid for it. I hate it. I can’t stop doing it. I need help on how to change this.

I come home exhausted every day and don’t have any energy for the rest of life’s administrative tasks or anything else enjoyable. I’m growing to resent my 40 hour a week desk job for taking 60 of my brain hours (I’m including commuting time) and feel like if I worked 3 days a week, I could get enough rest to feel refreshed.

I don’t know how people come home from work and don’t think about what still needs to get done at the job or come home from a 9 hour day and have energy to do anything that is good for them consistently. Help me figure out how to stop thinking so much or to turn off my brain. I feel like my life is passing me by if I only have any energy for the two days a week off. I feel like a wage slave even though my job is awesome.

I literally just ate a Costco soft serve ice cream in my car alone after a grocery run instead of going on a real run.

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