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When I was getting burned out and started asking to be scheduled enough time to get my weekly tasks done, so they "silent fired" me by taking away all my tasks and putting me exclusively on the new hire jobs.

I think I was in my early 20s, at my second dev job. It was early enough in my career that it helped.

Not sure of the exact age, but around 2 years from when I started working.

Professionally? When I got my first non-Union job.

Personally, weirdly enough it actually has worked for me

I think I was 17 or 18.

When I had to have a tiny mental breakdown over getting a single day off after spending the year prior doing favours for the store manager like driving the delivery truck and being the pillar that kept the fresh departments standing. Ohh and I hadn't had a holiday for 2 years.

Now I work 4 days a week by choice, I come in do my work well enough then sign off. I constantly remind them that if I'm not being actively paid by the company I see myself as unemployed and free to do what I want.

I think 23 or 24.

Mowing the yard for my dad as a pre-teen. I was trying to earn some extra cash and so went way above and beyond.

He acknowledged it and did pay a little more than we’d agreed to, but in no way commensurate to the extra work I put in.

I don’t mind working hard or doing extra, but I do it for me now. If interested, passionate, and engaged, then I dig deep and do more. Otherwise it’s the agreed upon work and no more.

Idk it just kinda worked for me

Pretty damn old. I’m too embarrassed to say.

I still do it, but I ask and get

Way too old.

29

13 or 14

Oh I figured that shit out in 3rd grade.