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Working 40 hours a Week is Nothing if You Enjoy what You’re Doing (programmingmobile.com)
1 point by itaylor on Jan 1, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"""Working 40 hours a Week is Nothing if You Enjoy what You’re Doing"""

40 hours a week, yeah.

But people also work crazy hours, like 80+ hour weeks. And then you also have to add the commuting time in some cases.

So, maybe even "Working 80 hours a Week is Nothing if You Enjoy what You’re Doing", but:

1) You could still be enjoying it for the wrong reasons.

2) It still takes it's toil on you.

3) It's still bad for your family life / spouse / children etc.

4) It can still lead to a much inferior outcome (because of exhaustion, not thinking straight etc). There's a reason commercial pilots are allowed to work for X hours consecutively and no more, and no, the reason is not "union pressure".

5) You have to balance what you get out of this too, because a few people overworking because they "enjoy what they do" (e.g out of college kids doing CRUD shit in the framework du jour) can kill wages/working environment for people who want to do it professionally and don't think it as the be-all-end-all of their life.




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