Reply #18: I work to the best of my ability

[bratcatinok]

because I always want to know I've done the best I could regardless. That doesn't mean I have to kill myself or give myself a nervous breakdown just because the employer decides to keep piling the work on. I'm one person and I can only do so much without cutting corners or doing shoddy work. I refuse to cut corners or do shoddy work because I want to feel I've done my job well.

And yeah, the pressure to do more and more and more can be a killer if you let it. What I did was to document the 'shortcuts or statements made that would suggest cutting corners' as well as to document what I'd accomplish each day. I developed a sort of code I could understand and would add it to my calendar each day.