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My insomnia causes me to be productive during the best time of day: when everyone else is asleep, I can finally focus and get work done without being interrupted. Definitely valuable to me personally.

As far as any valuable habits at work, I do well to not be as stressed as everyone else. From the philosophy of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy that I try to live by: No matter what situation you find yourself in, DON'T PANIC.

This, however, can appear as a blessing and a curse: The fact that I come off as too down to Earth or too laid back or lackadaisical, which can upset my supervisor or co-workers because it appears I'm not taking something seriously [enough], although I certainly am, I'm just not stressing about it as much as everyone else.

Whatever the situation, there are only two outcomes: We'll either get through it... or we won't.

Since life is pretty much in a linear dimension, especially when it comes to work, it would be rare that we wouldn't get through any situation and we'd eventually move forward and learn from whatever we went through.

And again.. the downside of this? I'm probably more likely to get passed over as someone who could be in a "supervisory" or "management" position. The plus side? Less stress ;)




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