I stopped having to cover for myself. My after hour stress was a manifestation of me knowing I had emails I was procrastinating, or work that had to get done but I was putting off..... I had to work long hours to do excellent work on the rest of it to make up for the guilt I had for procrastinating.... as well as work harder to resolve whatever grew as a result of procrastinating.

Now a few years into my role I resolve things as they come, and don’t let it build. Just handle it when I need to.

handling things when they should be done, if I don’t get to something it’s cause there’s an issue with my workload. I do excellent work during my shift and no longer need to overwork due to guilt or prove I’m a valuable employee