A word to my younger buddies here.
I am a Finance Products team lead, and in the course of my career, I have been laid off once, been "effectively" fired once and survived one layoff. I want to write about my experience here, maybe it will be of some use to a youngster.
When I was a "Junior", the philosophy of corporate machinery seemed like THE logical way - not just for the office, but how to live my own life. I'd set "targets" for myself, both in and out of office - get the presentation ready, lose x kilos in y months, run 30 minutes a day, meet 2 new women a month and so on.
You hear astounding stories from successful people's personal lives in the buzz of corporate:
"Some asshole worth X billion dollars wakes up everyday at 4 pm and shoves a 12 inch icicle in his darkest parts" or "He reads 456 pages in his sleep while skiing in the Sahara" and so on. The Tech industry is especially obssessed with such garbage.
The office philosophy sucks. It's no way to treat a living organism- a human is infinitely more complex than the most sophisticated product, and forcing the rigid performance driven agenda of the office on yourself does not fall short of a crime by much. Leave that shit in the office, where it belongs.