How have you created work/life balance? What boundaries did you place? What were the results?
Why are you working 70 hour weeks. What are you doing. Work smarter not harder. How is that sustainable
On evenings, weekends and when I’m on PTO, I turn off email on my phone and don’t answer calls. I’ll check voicemail but won’t call back unless dire or it’s a work buddy who needs help.
Work excellently for 40 hours every week. Work out a deal with manager so that you’ll always be willing to put the pedal to the medal when needed, but will take comp time when business need requires over 40. Also make sure boss knows that if everything is an emergency then nothing is.
No email or work communication apps on my phone. If you need me, you’d better use the incident management system to page me, and that means it has to be urgent.
When my kids were little, I did a really good job of getting all of their events on my schedule early and letting people know that their meeting didn't take precedent over my kid's event. I had really good balance. Now that the kids are gone and I'm back on the partner track, I work a lot more and have a lot more flexibility. I generally love my job, so I'm OK with that. I still block long weekends and vacations with my wife and the occasional kid event (like upcoming college graduation!) but I also work more nights and weekends by choice. Some of my best reviews were when I had the most going on in my personal life. Maybe I was more focused? Jeff Raikes gave a great piece of career advice for we type As. Never try to "work less". It's not in your DNA. Instead, become equally or more passionate about things outside of work. That helped me a LOT.
I never work more than 40 hours a week.... But I also don't get promoted because I'm not going above and beyond (only people working overtime 24/7 seem to get recognized at companies I have worked at)
I have a block on my calendar from midnight to 10am and from 4pm to midnight. Obviously, important meeting will be attended, but it keeps the drivel to the 10-4 hours. Let’s me do real work in the morning and evening.
I stopped working for vendors. Seriously. The amount of faux emergencies I faced on the vendor side was ridiculous.
Could you elaborate?
I started working at T-Mobile instead of software vendors.
No travel on Sundays! Will take first flight out Monday. Before I did this it would be a Sunday afternoon travel to supposedly come back Thursday but was never the case, always turned to Friday night which meant only 1.5 days off. Burned out faster that way until I implemented the No Sunday travel. This was mostly because of different projects starting one after another which meant one PM didn't give a crap about the other project.
Sorry for asking so plainly, but: why the hell would you do that? Set boundaries man.
No, none, tired of working 70 hours per week.