8 Signs You are a Workaholic
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Being a workaholic is not a virtue. Loving your work is good, but blindly loving your work ruins your life. There is no doubt that work is important, and in today’s world we spend most of our waking hours at office. But remember that you do have a personal life as well which is much more important than your job. Also, if you are a workaholic, you miss out on plenty of things that constitute life in general – your family members, your wife and children, the attractive coworker from another department, the awesome movie which all your friends have already watched, the cappuccino at the cafe downstairs, and many more such things. Do you feel that a lot of time has passed suddenly without you realizing? Did you really live all that time? Or were you so involved in your work, that you barely raised your head and looked out of the window? Listed here are the top 8 signs that will tell you that you are a workaholic.
1. You enter office early and leave late
You are always the first to come to office and always the last one to leave. When you arrive, the whole office is empty. People come in after you, and they leave while you still work. And when you leave, the whole office is empty again. If this is you, you are a workaholic.
2. You have your meals at your desk
Do you eat proper meals during the day? Even if you do, do you have them in the cafeteria or where your coworkers generally have? If you have your meals at your desk, it is a sure sign of being a workaholic.
3. You have your superiors on speed dial
Your immediate boss and superiors are always in need of you and you have them on speed dial. You are so involved in your work that you do not even want to bother about searching your boss’s phone number on your phone before calling him/her. This is another sign of being a workaholic.
4. You can never make it to an evening appointment
You are never available in the evenings. Even if you make an appointment or promise to meet someone, you can never make it, or even if you do, you are shamefully late, all because of your work schedule. If such is the case with you, you are a workaholic.
