Man you all have problems... I cant have enough work
Some people say germans only live to work but I've to disagree, I live to drink beer too
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Jokes aside, I think one of the most important things to be succesful at your work is you need to love it. When I am working on engineering projects, I can loose all track of time and space until I just fall asleep. I personally cant understand when people tell me they are bored, cause I think 24 hours isnt enough a day. Of course you got moments of depression sometimes, when you cant work like a machine, but if you dont set for yourself to high standards like working on sth like a machine, you can cope with those moments and just do nothing and be still happy.
One big mistake for me, I figured is doing things last minute. I figuered the longer I dont do a thing, the more it starts bugging me and makes me unhappy. So I developed the trick for me to try to keep an emotional freedom by getting rid of mundane tasks or unwanted work as quickly as possible. And it's basically me who decides if I will do this or that now or not. If my boss tells me, I have to complete that paper till midday, I'll tell him that I'll try and if I have a bad day that day, I have no probvlems with telling my boss later: I didnt manage to complete it till midday. That will most probably result in me being fired one day, but this attitude is mandatory to keep your personal distance to your work and emotional freedom.
I find it more important to keep my personal good health than to complete impossible deadlines in time and there I'll always try to manage work the best way possible to do it the less stressful way.
Maybe that's a thing making me more J.