You could spend 20-40+ hours working on a traditional plan and solution over 2 weeks or you can let the stress and adrenaline hit to gitrdun in 5-10 hours.
edit: bit of "man maths" later and those are a lot of tasty hours saved to spend on reddit, gaming, nothing
Holy shit, are you watching me? That's pretty much the standard MO.
Do nothing for weeks, start feeling really bad about everything (mostly I start feeling like I'm being paid way too much and basically do nothing). Finally a deadline approaches and I hammer that shit out, then look at what I've done and say "damn I'm good".
Then repeat the entire process. It's not great for the psyche, but it's a hell of a ride.
I accepted the behaviour as normal to me during my bachelors and it has helped to at least not feel so bad about everything you are doing "wrong." It's just different to the easily accountable norm.
Perhaps management is slowly changing again, hopefully this time it takes the behaviour more into account so it is less hidden behind audits of hours "worked" on a project.
Can agree that it takes its toll, but that is why the saved time is for regenerating.
The only problem with this is eventually your body can't keep up anymore. I'm only 27, and the all nighters that I could, if necessary,1 pull every other day for weeks at a time in my early 20's now wreck me for half a week after just one.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17
You could spend 20-40+ hours working on a traditional plan and solution over 2 weeks or you can let the stress and adrenaline hit to gitrdun in 5-10 hours.
edit: bit of "man maths" later and those are a lot of tasty hours saved to spend on reddit, gaming, nothing