[dannycastonguay]

Agreed. It's important to put enough effort that you find meaning in your work, but not so much that it ruins your wellbeing. Here's a rough algorithm that works for me:

1. Estimate the hours you think it will take to complete a task.

2. Double it and let the team know you did that.

3. Do the work well including good documentation.

4. Assess your progress when you've spent 50% of the planned hours. If you're not at least halfway done, avoid overworking. Instead, seek help within the team and descope.

5. Utilise any extra time for learning new and useful skills, if you finish ahead of schedule.

Cheers

[quickthrower2]

I agree. This requires a healthy workplace though.

I worked somewhere, well two places where I was literally taken to task about how long something took. Repeatedly. They didn’t care about why, just that it wont happen again.

It didn’t: in both cases it’s time to fire up Word again and edit my CV (pretty much the one reason I use that program!)

[lokar]

It’s reasonably straightforward to produce a very nice resume/CV in LaTeX.