I was this way in high school. Every day I wasn't at school or work I was kicking a soccerball, playing basketball, or baseball. Like, I'd literally always be doing some type of sports related activity. During the soccer season I'd be first at practice and last to leave and usually put much more effort into it than most. When I left soccer practice and didn't have to work I'd go home and shoot basketball til it got dark. Every single year I played hs soccer I had shin splints from running on our hard track since we didn't run on the soccer field until the beginning of March and our season started in January when we went back for the second half of the school year. I never really thought of shin splints as that bad until one of our other players had them and decided to sit out the season because they hurt so much and felt they weren't able to move. Sure they hurt and all but I never felt they were something that could keep me off the field.
That type of work ethic and determination to keep doing what needs to get done goes right into my career life to this day.
As joy said in a post about EJ's... something about not getting sick as much as others... I find this somewhat true... but I think it's more like...even if we get sick, we're probably more likely to show up at work. Sure, this may piss some people off, but oh well... I don't think I've ever used more than 5 sick days for actually being sick since I started working... 12 yrs ago.
These days they seem to be used if I partied to much the night before...lmao.
I have learned to stay away from work and not work overtime as much as I have in the past. This is one reason I do a good amount of photography now since I find it as something cool to do where I can relax and take my time doing. Even when I'm relaxing I find that I have to be busy... this may sound strange but I've found it's my way around being a workaholic.![]()



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