i used to be like that, remember getting pelters off the missus for checking work emails etc while we were in spain, totally ridiculous to think you were that important that the firm would buckle without my input, soon(ish) learned and in my defence it was when i was doing Gas Manager job after being promoted from the tools so there was a mad keen-ness about me, soon learned after a couple of people quite close to me dies very suddenly, and after watching their firms replace them effortlessly (no offence to the firm, life goes on) i started to realise i needed to refocus on the family, started to get home at a far more reasonable time, didnt really do computer work at night and after a few weeks realised the world was still spinning without as much input from me, after the initial shock of realising you could do without me i started to enjoy it, and now, well thats a totally different kettle of fish, i work damn hard at work doing what i need to do as well as i can, and while im there i rerally care, but as soon as i can get home im outta there, every weekend off, early friday finish and for the last 12yrs or so i take EVERY holiday im entitled to and usually some unpaid to get extra hols, its just not worth the stress, look around the workplace, remember that crackin guy who used to work at the end machine, we all loved him and he was a stalwart, never off etc etc, then 5 years ago he dropped down dead at that same machine, we were devastated, what was his name again, i forget, life is too short my friends,
i'm 50 now and was 27 when my dad dropped down dead aged 54, i thought at the time that 54 was "quite old" :sick: not so sure now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
