The Hamster Wheel That Drains You

A good career can quietly turn into a hamster wheel that drains you. You work on a hard, ambiguous problem, solve it, people praise the solving, and you pick up a bigger problem within the same domain. People start to expect you to work on that type of problem. Your salary increases over time, scope grows indefinitely. It turns into a wheel. Being part of this wheel is hard to notice because it…