I was just wonder if I am the stupid one or the "dedicate" one at the office. It seems to me that only a very few people in the office bring work home so we can "catch up" or "getting ahead" ...lol. When I drive to and from work, when I am in the bathroom, when I am in bed, whenever or whereever I am at, I tend to think about work. Is it a worthless or worthwhile effort?
Your "problem"
is that you have a strong sense of responsibility, I think.
DW did that often before we retired. She was the only one in the office (fed. govt.) with a sense of responsibility and/or a work ethic, and was working 10-12 hour days, would often go in on Saturdays and/or Sundays. The work was recognized, she got outstanding ratings - with a bonus check - but the downside was consistent neck and back pain and headaches. She'd come home from work and collapse on the couch. Basically life was the pits.
I'd try to tell her it didn't matter. Where I worked (law enforcement) a screw-up at work meant somebody got hurt or died, anything else could get fixed, and I viewed other stuff in that context. If the paperwork in her office didn't get done no one would die, and whoever's project was delayed would learn to get their ducks in a row and get it in earlier. It didn't convince her, the task was assigned to her and therefore she "had" to get it done. This came from within her, nowhere else.
A wake-up came when my mother died and six months later her mother died. By then we had zero debt (no mortgage, no CC debt, etc.) and the means to pull the plug. It took some convincing to get her to agree but we did it. We moved from a highly congested area north of Wash. DC where we had to plan our daily lives around traffic to slower-paced WV.
DW has all the time she wants to spend with nearby family, when her father had a hip replacement she could be there instead of thinking about work, and so on.
Both families notice within a year that we were both much more relaxed and laid-back and had no stress in our lives. What we gave up was dual six figure incomes. Okay, so we'll never have the 35-foot sailboat, the new Corvette, the 60" plasma TV and some other toys. What we do have is our health, our sanity, and time to spend with people we care about.
We think the trade was a good one.
Your YMMV.