Gregory's Server@Gargron Don't work from home if you can work from an office. Or have an office at home, and don't work anywhere else and keep office hours, and use your office strictly for work. Work life balance needs firm time boundaries. Tea breaks used to be very important, because concentration is best with 2 hour sessions and a 20 minute break between. My career had better enforced boundaries when working from home wasn't an option and everything and everyone stopped at tea break time.
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@Gargron That sounds a pretty tough lifestyle - I don't think I'd cope with it well either. In that situation the best I can suggest is you put time in your diary to get out the home, to exercise, socialise, experience art/music or just chill outdoors or at a book library, keep to it and make sure all notifications and devices are off when you're chilling, resting or winding down listening to some music or reading a novel getting ready to sleep.  @Gargron That's just not sustainable for more than a few months. I've done 1 or 2 death march programming projects in the distant past. My son also burned out trying to do too much teaching and research, and has had to take some years out to get his health back. We're human beings, not human doings. 50 hours quality work in a week is more productive longer term than never switching off and doing other things, because you'll do more limited sessions in a better state of mind. Just say no. |
@copsewood I don't have an office or separate home office room 🙂