The end of the year can be a time to reflect on your work and career progress.
Computer science professor Daniel Lemire writes on his blog:
I have long proposed the retirement freedom test.
If you were really free in your job, you would continue it into your retirement.
Another test is the lottery ticket test: would you keep your job if you won the lottery?
But these tests are, again, somewhat subjective.
Most people only retire once and they usually cannot tell ahead of time what retirement will be like.
For something more immediate, more measurable, I propose the week-end test.
(Admittedly, others might want to dedicate their week-ends to unbridled and continuous kinky sex.
But you get my point.)
So anyone who works on week-end fails the week-end freedom test.
If you are checking emails from work on week-ends, you fail.
Lemire uses these tests to determine how much freedom an employee has at work.
He also points out that many people fail these tests by choice.
The week-end freedom test| Daniel Lemire’s blog
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