They Never Talk About Working More
2 min readNov 20, 2019
At a party decades ago, I met an oncologist. In the conversation, I was whining about my job as the General Manager of a medical software company. I understood achieving it before I was 34 was something I had thought I wanted. However, it did not really seem worth it.
He said to me, “You are not wrong. I am a cancer doctor. I tell people they are going to die. Not one time in the many times I have had…
