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My totally unsolicited advice:
1. Stop agreeing to work weekends. That can't help your energy levels any. Do the amount of work your contract says you were hired to do. Usually this is 40-45h in North America, and a bit less in Europe. People who think salary means you're required to do unlimited uncompensated overtime are either self-serving managers or suckers who think you should suffer as much as they are.
2. If you can afford to take time off to travel, you can afford to take time off to get your life back on track. Start saving money. If you're still too exhausted to do career planning even when working reasonable hours, you can take some time off to get your PhD application in order. -
https://goo.gl/kmJpqU
Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek -
@rantalicious maybe, but this book can make you think about life and work and give some ideas.
For example... I probably wouldn't have the joy of working on a mountain top in 1680 meters altitude with chilly 18*C / 65 *C while midst of a 36*C / 97*F Heatwave if i hadn't read that book. https://devrant.com/rants/1608304/... -
@rantalicious yeah you're right. 😄 He's probably a douche and writes a lot of useless filler stuff in order to fill the book, but the key points can make you rethink your situation.
also i've really enjoyed the movie www.onewayticket.io about digital nomadism.
www.nomsdlist.io
I've been asked to work a Sunday next weekend; and like an idiot I agreed. Wasting a beautiful summer day inside designing software for a company to push more fast food product and contribution to obesity and diabetes in the world.
This is my life, and I hate it here. I hate this industry. In my 15 years, I once took off for 11 months and lived out of two bags through Asia and Europe. I spent 5 months with just a car driving across America. It's fun, but non-sustainable and I had to find a job afterwards both times.
I need a way out of this cycle. I need to contact professors and get letters of recommendation and get into a PhD program (I have a masters already), but finding the time after exhausting days at work is .. well .. exhausting.
The most I can do after work is go hang out with friends or do something, but if I come straight home, I just fall asleep. I'm tired all the time.
rant
tired all the time