One of the many unwanted side-effects of enduring high-stress conditions (such as a work environment that is uber-hostile, dealing with people who are operating at cross-purposes to your goals, sacrificing substantial amounts of personal free time to facilitate the completion of an arbitrary task that serves no real productive end, etc.) is that it is often damaging to a person's mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
So, don't do that.
In this day and age there are an incredible number of options available to the average person in regard to gainful employment that are low or no stress and provide adequate compensation for your labor/effort.
Do some research, figure out which job really suits you best, then do that. And do it to the best of your ability.
As long as it does not take advantage of or harm another human being.
And adds to the quality of your life.
And has a good benefits package.
And a short commute.
As a youth it's possible to get caught up in the adrenaline rush of working to make impossible deadlines or trying to meet pie-in-the-sky quotas but let me smack you in the face with a harsh truth - chronic stress is a slow-acting poison and ingesting it willingly is suicide.
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