Comment by mettamage

That's fair.

Here's where I'm coming from.

With the Leetcode stuff going on I'm doing a lot more than 40 hours per week. Nevermind I also need to learn actual tech developments outside my job.

Other than that I put 10 to 20 hours of time into personal development. I've done this since I was a teenager.

All of this feels brutal, but my life does seem to get better over time. Though, I am not at a place in my career where I want to be, but in part that's because I find it really tough to know where I want to go, so I tend to do everything. Unfortunately, being an average/above average xyz in multiple domains doesn't do much (currently in pentesting, software engineering, data engineering and being a data analyst).