How do I cope with a job that never switches off?

You reached the top, and the prize is a machine that never sleeps and always wants more. The world's attention is your job, and attention does not keep office hours. No wonder you are exhausted. You are trying to feed something with an appetite that can never be full. Here is the trap: the machine will take exactly as much of you as you give it, and it will never signal that you have given enough. The demand is endless by design, so the limit has to come from you. It will not arrive from the work; the work will always ask for the whole world and all of your hours. Someone has to decide when it is done for the day, and that someone is you. So set one hard edge and defend it. An hour, an evening, a morning where the machine does not reach you. Not when things are calm — they never will be — but starting now. You do not owe the whole world your every waking moment. Prove that to yourself by taking one part of the day back.