I really resonate with this post; I don't want to say I there's something I "struggle" with but I do feel the need to be able to balance my time a bit more.
I'm often a very productive member of my team, I love challenges, and I love digging into things and coming out the other side and feeling accomplished; My manager gets me onto things and asks when they might be done by, and I feel complied to deliver more in shorter time frames.
It's not so much that I feel "pressured" by expectations; but more I feel "involved" - my failures are the teams failures, my success is the team's success. and I want my team/product/company to succeed, so I spend my effort contributing to that.
However, this does swamp out time for my personal things that I want to do; I am wanting to learn lisp, and have some of my own personal projects that I want to play around with, in a multitude of technologies; I don't have spare time outside of work, so it's really on work time that I want to be able to experiment with these things. as the author puts it - "it doesn't offer any immediate value to me or the company, ... but I think generally made me fitter smarter and more productive"..
So for me, the balancing act, is to assert time to reflect/recharge in other spheres of technology, while also feeling the communal duty of our team to get the company going.
I'm often a very productive member of my team, I love challenges, and I love digging into things and coming out the other side and feeling accomplished; My manager gets me onto things and asks when they might be done by, and I feel complied to deliver more in shorter time frames.
It's not so much that I feel "pressured" by expectations; but more I feel "involved" - my failures are the teams failures, my success is the team's success. and I want my team/product/company to succeed, so I spend my effort contributing to that.
However, this does swamp out time for my personal things that I want to do; I am wanting to learn lisp, and have some of my own personal projects that I want to play around with, in a multitude of technologies; I don't have spare time outside of work, so it's really on work time that I want to be able to experiment with these things. as the author puts it - "it doesn't offer any immediate value to me or the company, ... but I think generally made me fitter smarter and more productive"..
So for me, the balancing act, is to assert time to reflect/recharge in other spheres of technology, while also feeling the communal duty of our team to get the company going.