Quote:
Originally Posted by ncos  No, everyone expects you to work at home. And all the clueless workerbees buy into this idea, so if you don't act as insane as they do, you get left behind. Being a "good employee" means being so dedicated to your job that you work on your own time. I'm 4 years out of college. I've worked in the software industry and now I'm a high school teacher, it's true in both places. Sometimes I feel like ambition is overrated, just give me a mind numbing job that I can forget about when I get home. |
I feel your pain; I worked in the software industry too for about five years. I wouldn't say so much it's that ambition is overrated or that jobs necessarily have to be stimulating vs. numbing, but rather that it's costing more and more in general of one's own time/resources. (I've seen an old boss of mine suffer a lot due to his own workaholism, and I do not plan on taking his path.)