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I've been through a few med and small fast growing companies companies. I always find eventually the need for "fast" causes priorities to make whiplash turns constantly.

As an IC I find it frustrating because I usually need a bit of ramp up time to understand what I'm doing and then invest a lot of time into working on something before being picked up and thrown into a different direction. Sometimes the directional change then being a 180 back to what you're doing, and you think to yourself "I just wasted a day investigating something for nothing".

I'm starting to notice signs of burn out in myself. What do you do to manage this? I know boundaries at work help, but in the 8 hours that you're in the madness what do you do?