If not critical, I avoid working on weekends. Primarily for following reasons:
1. Like spending time with my spouse and young daughter because on weekdays I am mostly not at home
2. Used to work on weekends earlier and gotten into a habit of postponing deep work to weekends (because of communication noise during weekdays). Instead of finding ways to be more productive on weekdays. Hence, now I force myself to prioritize and get stuff done on weekdays - stretch for long hours on weekdays instead of falling prey to catching up on weekends
@pethron absolutely! Happy personal life leads to a happy and productive professional life too :) I can understand weekend grinds in certain life stages and for certain times but otherwise its not a great idea
Usually no, you just end up working on borrowed time that you'll have to pay back in some way in the near future (getting sick more often, burnout, etc.)
Nope.
Used to but life has more to offer haha.
Usually one day is completely off, Sunday is for weekly planning, strategy things I don't get to during the week.
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