How are you supposed to find time to exercise when you're working 10-12 hours a day? I can barely find time to clean my apartment.
And if you're not (can I have your job?), you're probably less likely to be burning out.
And if you're not (can I have your job?), you're probably less likely to be burning out.
WRT finding time to exercise, I go to the gym for an hour over lunch: 10 mins running, 30 mins doing weights and using various machines and another 10 mins running to wind down, then shower and back to work for the afternoon. Other days I go to the climbing wall and have an hour on the bouldering wall. Then back to the desk.
I also usually cycle to work. The physical exercise makes me feel overall much better both physically and mentally. I can really tell the difference if I don't do anything for a few days. Physical exercise definitely reduces my stress.
Not very many. I would definitely love to leave at 5, and I know that this would make me more productive - in total! - not just per hour, but I don't want to deal with the fallout from it, since everyone else stays until after 7:30.
I tend to get in at 8-9, while others come in 9-10, but no one can tell how early I was in. As is, I'm already typically among the earliest leaving, and it already feels weird.
I spent a year working 12 hour day and night shifts, so I can certainly sympathise with the hours. I got a 6 mile cycle each way and wasn't entirely desk bound then (industrial laboratory) so physical exercise wasn't an issue.
FIND BALANCE!
Once you're burnt out it's hard to not have the same thoughts and feelings after you change jobs (or roles/habits, finish school etc.).
My health has definitely taken a downhill turn... before I was at the gym 3/4 times a week, plus bike rides. Now it's one or two, and that comes at the cost of being able to do other things.
I definitely agree with this article.
Start looking for another job ASAP. Raise your salary expectations to at least 10% over what you make now. Name a figure at least 15% higher early in negotiations, if you get cornered in to picking a number first. Consider going higher than these minimums. 20%. Maybe 25%. Don't drop your starting bid until you've failed to land at least two jobs due solely to salary expectation mismatches.
You may be surprised at how accepting people are of a slightly-nicer-worded version of "why do I want to leave so soon? The job is shit, that's why", especially if you can frame it as "it's not advancing my career as I expected blah blah blah". And really, six months isn't that bad. I know lots of very successful people with multiple entries like that in their work history.
Since you can't really use anyone where you are now as a reference anyway (not for this particular job search, at least), if you haven't already been explicitly told you have to work 10-12 hours, consider cutting back to 8 hours/day cold-turkey and using the time you save to recover and to look for a job, at least until someone complains.
(I'm assuming you're in tech and don't live in the middle of no-where. Hell, I do live in the middle of no-where by many people's standards, and anyone with even a hint of talent gets snapped up here fast. Job openings as far as the eye can see. It won't last forever—move while you can. It's musical chairs.)
You can honestly say to potential future employers that this job is just a poor fit. Better to cut your losses early (and save your health) rather than tough it out for something others may not even care about.
If I couldn't make that schedule work then I would work less. The idea of giving up lifting is a non-starter for me.