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Working Overtime Every Week While Your Boss Takes Another Vacation — Sound Familiar?

  Let’s be completely honest for a moment. Close your eyes and think about your routine this past week. Did you stay late at the office—or keep your laptop glowing on the kitchen table until midnight—grinding away to finish a project, fix a mistake, or hit a corporate deadline? Meanwhile, did you see photos pop up on your phone of your manager or boss checking in from a beach resort, a golf course, or a third European vacation this year? If a bitter little knot just formed in your stomach because that scenario hits entirely too close to home, take a deep breath. You are not alone. If we were sitting across from each other having a quiet cup of coffee right now, and you looked at me and said, "I am working harder than ever, sacrificing my evenings, missing my kids' bedtimes, and pouring my soul into a job that treats me like a replaceable cog while the people at the top reap all the rewards—why am I doing this?" —I wouldn't hand you a book on corporate time management....