Are you taking your job too seriously?
Checking the symptoms for over-investing in work is a valid idea.
What would that look like?
- Constant pressure
- Always trying to prove yourself
- Expecting perfection at every turn
- Working unreasonable hours
- Demanding others show your level of commitment
- Using busyness as proof of your existence
- Exhaustion is a performance benchmark
- Never finding the finish line
- Measuring your self-worth in money
- Internet praise addiction
- Unable to be content or sit still
- Only resting when hungover
- Defending working on your holidays
Our society praises workaholism. Not because it is praiseworthy but because we’ve confused production with identity.