Are you addicted to work? Often find yourself working late hours in the office and continue working at home even then.
People often justify themselves that are working great and it's better to work more but more they work, more they develop a habit in themselves that includes:
- Staying late in the office, even not needed.
- Distract yourself with work to reduce anxiety.
- Over obsessed about projects and end up putting more time.
- Love to talk about work and technology trends even in a small gathering.
- End up putting yourself in a condition to cheer up when technology geeks are talking.
- Work to avoid relationships and end up affecting them.
- Told by someone to "Keep pace slow - Get a life".
- Using mobile phones to kill time even not needed by doing nothing ( Exploring settings and more )
Discussion & Suggestions
What do you guys think? What should developers/managers do in order to refrain from this addiction?
One thing that helps me a bit is when I genuinely don't have a potential issue in the back of my mind. Like, knowing somebody else is fully on call and can handle 99% of problems that might come up.
The fact that I have trouble unwinding without this case is a problem. But I do know that a trustworthy explicit "on call" system helps things.
I think that might be different from what you're describing, but it's a thing.
Nature helps with the above issues, but only somewhat. What I think really helps with addiction to my coding and other work is exercise.
Good hard exercise can truly let me unwind, relax my brain. Meditation also helps, but exercise is the biggie.