Feeling Overwhelmed, How to do everything?

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happytaco

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happytaco
Apr 24, 2021 5 Comments

New grad SDE at Amazon. Feeling overwhelmed. How do people do it all?
1. Job performance
2. Physical Exercise
3. Interview Prep
4. Side Hustle development work
5. General reading / Knowledge Acquisition.

I feel pretty tired after a day of work at the job and I don't know how people balance doing more than one of the above. It feels like you can only pick 2 or 3 from the above to do.

Now lets say it isn't possible to do everything, how do you prioritize what to do?

#Amazon #Exhausted #Priorities

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  • Amazon
    zOQP72

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    zOQP72
    Can’t have it all. Part maturing is shifting your goals from a list of aspirations to a few realistic expectations. Welcome to adulthood where success is measured in balance not extremes.

    If self improvement is so important to you, then consider outsourcing unimportant work to others.
    Apr 24, 2021 0
  • AQR
    alkaline23

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    alkaline23
    Health comes first - both physical and mental. After that it’s a balance of work and social life. I have moved few companies in last 10 years but the friends I made in early years are still with me.

    It can be easy to get too focused at work but remember that there are other long term things in life that require time as well.
    Apr 24, 2021 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    brozos

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    brozos
    I’d say work actively on 2 goals at a time and passively on one more. And then cycle through them.
    One suggestion would be to actively work on 1 & 2 for a year since you’re a new grad while passively working on 5.

    You wouldn’t need to work actively on 2 after a year or rather, it gets much easier. So you can shift to 4 and have 2 as passive.

    You get the idea. Hope it helps.
    Apr 24, 2021 0
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    pip_worker

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    pip_worker
    As others have said you don't get to have it all and you'll need to make sacrifices.

    Take two, work on them enough so you can swap one for another for a period of time.

    Don't rotate out physical or mental health, though.
    Apr 25, 2021 0
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    V☝️SA

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    V☝️SA
    A VCR that
    Apr 24, 2021 0