My Life Strategy has Always Been to Cope with Stress by Working Hard

I have pretty good balance NOW regarding hard work, because I've managed to give myself tendonitis in BOTH wrists, and a trigger finger on my left hand. That's what happens when you work TOO hard.

I overwork but yet somehow the money isn't piling up on me despite NOT being a over spender. 🤔 it's annoying lol.
I'm a caregiver with two jobs. Balancing out time for myself is nearly impossible and does negatively affect my life. Knowing this doesn't not make changing it easy.

This is actually a very underrated strategy. I have a similar mentality and it has actually taken me very far. For example lots of people talk about networking to find work. I never ever got jackshit done in my career by networking. Everything worthwhile has been achieved by simply brute force effort and winning the competition for the job by getting everything on the checklist.

People can fuck around trying to cheat the system but I have always come through by just playing by the rules and just winning the fair game outright.

I've done the same. I realized I've been working so much that I made myself lonely.

I'm working on fixing that, but I'm struggling to be honest.

in the past, work. but, i am semi retired now, so, thats not really an issue anymore. i only work 25 hrs a week or so now. which is way better than 60. LOL

I can totally relate
I work way more than I need to
And
It's my form of escape

many have worked themselves into an early grave with that philosophy...

once people get to 40-50 years old, they must learn to realize that their body can't withstand the punishment and stress that it did 20 years prior

my father learned that lesson the hard way; once by jumping/being thrown 30ft off a piece of machinery and landing on hard pavement, and almost exactly a year later via a heart attack that required an airlift

you just gotta learn to accept your limitations, and distance and/or avoid things that cause stress & hardship.

My achievement expectations. They're way too high for no good reason.

no.