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This thread reminds me of the old joke about lawyers. Young associates want to make partner, so they engage in a pie eating contest for 7-10 years. If they make partner, they win a prize: more pie.
I tell my MBA students that we have a set of life points, which, like electricity, can't be stored. Life points comprise time and energy, fire and imagination. You are always expending your maximum budget among tasks like family, job, sleep, leisure, etc., but you can reallocate however and whenever you want. So if you have 100% of your life points spread among those various areas, I think it's important to keep track of the allocation. If it gets to over about 40% devoted to work/job, it's usually at at the expense of family, sleep, and leisure. I tell them to consider rebalancing their portfolios. People willing to expend 40 or even 50 or 60 percent of their life points on work are happily taken advantage of by those who are now free to expend their own life points on walks on the beach with their kids while you work.
I'm sure none of my fresh faced young MBAs will listen for the first decade or so, but one day perhaps they'll look back and understand. Took me that long.
Sounds like maybe you need a life point reallocation, Vash.
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