Exhausted

Warren Buffett once said to be successful in life, you don't need to make the right decision every single time, you just need to make a couple of right ones. When there is a clear goal, you spend less time wandering around. I admire those who don't stay overtime in work yet make both the bosses and cutomers happy. He/she has pioritized the duties, there is no need to detail attending every single emails. Most of the emails are junk anyways. It also creates better working relationship with your colleagues, at least you are more predictable instead of going around pleasing every one on both sides. I am not saying that I would rather work with slickly, sinister, finger-pointing backstabbers. But I am feeling tired explaining the same design/logic/piority over and over again, the next day, the same questions and blank-looking face re-appear. Perhaps I should be smart enough not to be bothered.

There is another type of coworkers that could wear you out, the senseless ones. Those you would like to slap some senses into their heads, be wary, they cannot be reasoned and are helplessly stubborn. The danger is always that they think they are doing the right thing (in the name of project/customers), they appear honest and firm but, in my experience, they create the worse damage than the naive type we discuss earlier.

Working smart is much more efficient then working hard. I guess I was naive and stubborn the first few years of my career. Oh well, I owe a lot of debt to people I worked with before.