TORONTO — Jonathan Frostick has spent a lot of time rethinking his outlook on work and just how misplaced some of his priorities were. Last Sunday afternoon, he was at his desk prepping for what would’ve been a busy workweek as a program director at an investment bank in the U.K. But suddenly, he couldn’t breathe. He was having a heart attack. As his chest tightened, his ears popped and pain surged through his left arm he was only thinking about work. “I needed to meet with my manager tomorrow, this isn’t convenient,” Frostick wrote in a post on the networking site LinkedIn, as he laid in a hospital bed. But after his near-death experience, he’s pledging some big changes. “I’m not spending all day on Zoom anymore. I’m really not going to be putting up with any s#%t at work ever again – life literally is too short.” These were just some of the vows the HSBC employee made and they’ve since led to a groundswell of support from people online. The epiphany, which Frostick detailed in post last week, has been liked more than 285,600 times as of Sunday and garnered nearly 15,000 comments from all over the…
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After his heart attack, man's post vowing to never again overwork attracts worldwide attention
