You’re thinking about it wrong. The trick is to do less and less of the shit you don’t like doing as you age, sorry I mean as you gain experience. Leverage your career capital into doing more of the work that fires you up and less of the work that doesn’t.

There’s always things you just “have to” do, but you’d be surprised how many of those are optional. A lot of the stuff that bores you to tears, is boring because nobody cares about it getting done. High chance that nobody will even notice if you don’t.

So this is why the people who've climbed the corporate ladder don't seem to jack shit?

Every time you ask someone a question, they answer. Great! Takes 5 minutes right? What you don’t see are the other 30 people doing the same thing.

I've reached a point now I feel drained after a work day, whether I concentrated a lot or found it boring. And controlling for sleep. For this reason, if something I'm interested requires more overhead, I try to do some early or at least plan and set it up, so that once work is done I can just go through the motions without thinking about it too much.