Years ago a firm told me what my hour was worth, and my first honest reaction was that they had made a mistake.
For years I told myself I couldn’t step back, because the need was too great — and I never once sat down and did the arithmetic.
Early in my career I kept fixing what was broken, and my manager told me to stop. It took years to name what that cost.
Years ago I broke ICU documentation across thirty hospitals in one afternoon — and what saved me wasn’t technical skill at all.