{"id":1422,"date":"2015-04-28T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2015-08-06T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:19:14","slug":"overworking-and-not-sleeping-is-the-new-badge-of-honor-which-will-burn-you-out-and-then-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/overworking-and-not-sleeping-is-the-new-badge-of-honor-which-will-burn-you-out-and-then-kill-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Overworking and not sleeping is the new badge of honor which will burn you out and then kill you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"b77d\" class=\"graf--p\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/digital-nomad-stories\/the-cult-of-work-you-never-meant-to-join-cd965fb9ea1a\">eye opening post<\/a> from Jason Lengstorf.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">After a few days of too little sleep, you\u2019re a drunken zombie.\u00a0We wouldn\u2019t go to work drunk, so why the hell do we go to work on four hours\u2019 sleep, when we\u2019re <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">more<\/em> impaired than if we were hammered?\u00a0To make matters worse, sleeping less than six hours a night <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8660373.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8660373.stm\">may lead to an early death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">If any of these sound familiar or if you can totally relate (like me :\/), then something needs to change<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Feeling Guilty About Any Time Away from Work\u200a\u2014\u200aEven Time with Family and Friends<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Frequently Working More than 40 Hours a Week<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Frequently Sleeping Less than 6 Hours a Night<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">So, yeah, advancement is good, but not worth it in the long run in terms of sacrificing the time spend with your child, spouse, friends. I&#8217;ve read a quote somewhere that goes something like &#8220;On his deathbed no man ever wished he spent more time in the office&#8221;. I believe balance in all mayor areas of your life is key but, of course, not easily attainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">The author goes on to say how he managed to work less time, but in turn be more productive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">I know this may sound too idealistic, but at least from time to time &#8211; why not give it a try, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eye opening post from Jason Lengstorf. After a few days of too little sleep, you\u2019re a drunken zombie.\u00a0We wouldn\u2019t go to work drunk, so why the hell&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}