#Chapter 145: Work to Live Live to Work

For the next few days, I buried myself in my work. With the amount of work piled onto all of us, it wasn’t difficult. In the mornings, I came in early, around 6am. At night, I wouldn’t leave until 9 or 10pm. The schedule was exhausting, and even after only a few days, burnout was clawing at my insides, dragging me down, down. I was barely sleeping. Neither was I eating enough, constantly sitting at my work station or talking on the phone. I came to work before sunrise and stayed long after sunset. How the higher ups wanted this to be the normal state of progress, I wasn’t sure. Nothing about this was sustainable. Especially not with most everyone else feeling the same effects as me. My co-workers move like zombies in the hallways. The planned layoffs had been pushed back, but not because of any increase in productivity. Rather, people were leaving the company in droves. Even I had received several phone calls from headhunters the past few days. They’d heard that the company w