Perfectionism: good or bad?

Most of the others left by 8 p.m.

My fellow news editor worked on the layout of the newspaper with me until about 11.

But I stayed until almost 1 a.m. perfecting the layout of a single page — a special, one-time page on the students’ union election — because I work much faster on my own than I do when everyone else is around.

I’m home now, but I’m still in the zone and not tired.

Should I have just left at the same time as the other editor? Or does productivity trump going to bed at a reasonable hour?

All signs point to me becoming a workaholic despite my other stereotypical Gen Y characteristics.