Do you work weekends?
Maria Anosova 🔥
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I want to see how many workaholics we have around here.🤣
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Maria Anosova 🔥 @maria_anosova
Me - yes
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@maria_anosova Yes!! All week! But I always block 2-half days along the week to prevent burnout
If not critical, I avoid working on weekends. Primarily for following reasons:
1. Like spending time with my spouse and young daughter because on weekdays I am mostly not at home
2. Used to work on weekends earlier and gotten into a habit of postponing deep work to weekends (because of communication noise during weekdays). Instead of finding ways to be more productive on weekdays. Hence, now I force myself to prioritize and get stuff done on weekdays - stretch for long hours on weekdays instead of falling prey to catching up on weekends
@vivek_karna I'm for the number 1 too :)
I already spend a lot of time with them during weekdays, but we are always so in a hurry... weekends are devoted to them and to have LOTS of fun :)
Then I can proceed to work every night if necessary :P
@vivek_karna exactly the same here - I found also that giving myself the weekend to decompress usually meant I could solve lagging problems quicker with fresh perspective the following week (sadly sometimes weekend working can’t be helped though :) )
Working all the weekends..
Yes, i work few hours.
There's no difference between weekends and weekdays for me! But I always do my best to have Fridays off :) What about you?
@ikram_mohamed I try to give myself days off, but I'm not 100% there yet.
I'm Extremely workaholic and positive Maria 😎😅
Launching soon!
Usually no, you just end up working on borrowed time that you'll have to pay back in some way in the near future (getting sick more often, burnout, etc.)
Sometimess :)
Nop. It was a hard workaholic habit to give up but it has benefited me greatly. Its something i tell my clients upfront now “no weekend work unless its basically like the most important thing happening like unless the business will fail and disrupt if I dont work the weekend” lol it sounds extreme but honestly the boundary - especially as I work remotely- has helped my mental health a lot!
Burnt out several times in my life already, so no, workaholic lifestyle is not for me :D
Nope.
Used to but life has more to offer haha.
Usually one day is completely off, Sunday is for weekly planning, strategy things I don't get to during the week.
When there are urgent matters, then yes, cannot postpone it, but I still try to to devote time to sports, hobbies, friends&family on weekends :)
Yes, I do.
I love it!
Launching soon!
Goal is to reach the point where I have the financial buffer to not work at weekends and go for a hike, climbing or surfing. At the moment I work at almost every weekend and make hackathons with friends or spend some time on own projects. First of all because I enjoy it, second of all cause I have the energy to do so and third reason is, that I think when I'm getting older and have a family etc. I think this will be harder / more important to spend then time with my potential children.
It’s a 5 day week for my team, but for me it’s usually 6. I prefer taking one day break just to touch base with life in general, spending some time with friends and family and a long snooze. But coz of the launch coming up soon, it’s almost all the weekends working. kinda fun though😅
Yes, i work
It can take just as much discipline NOT to work, especially if you're in the zone. I have to force myself to not write code during the weekend because I know that, even though I love doing it, without any kind of life balance it's only a short time before crashing. It doesn't mean you have to stay idle; for myself I love working on big home remodeling projects, which can be just as much (or sometimes a lot more) work than...work. IMO it's about staying challenged without staring at the exact same type of todo pile all week long...