You, too, can be an overachiever, so long as you have someone to run personal errands and do your chores, you're rich enough to have quick "outs" for personal emergencies, and you also fall into the small subset of people who function perfectly with 4 hours of sleep, and etc. God help you if you have kids.
I apologize that I have not read the linked article.
I am dismayed by the hero worship that is so common these days - "here's how to be an overachiever", "Uber's valuation exponentiates", "Children graduate high school without ever meeting their parents".
It is exceedingly uncommon for only one parent to have a job anymore. Nowadays, if there are two parents in a family, they both work, not to get rich, but in their struggle just to get by.
When I was a kid, unless he was aboard ship or - for a year - stationed in Saigon, my father was always home for supper.
Me, I work seven days a week, quite commonly go for days without sleeping so I can work.
I am self-employed. You'd think that would enable me to take all kinds of time off, but it's quite common for the self-employed to work far more than those who hold regular jobs.
I have a whole bunch of different projects going on. Admittedly I would work less if I focussed on just one, but it has always been my nature to pursue many goals at once.
Of most use to you is that I am building a list of every computer employer in the world. This is going very slowly so far, but I am building tools to automate it. I plan to fund it through KickStarter but am still working on the text of my written pitch, and have yet to shoot the video.
It is really easy to get overly obsessed with largely unproductively activities, such as analyzing my web server logs every single day. There are times when there is some point to that, but not commonly.
back in the day (what is now my) ex redesigned my site, but only the homepage and one interior page. It was up to me to update the rest of my site.
We needed some quick cash so I bid seven dollars per click for google adwords select on "custom software development". All of the other advertisers were my direct competitors. Were I to receive a click, the visitor would see my old site design, which was quite funky.
I did not sleep until I had rolled out Bonita's design to my entire site.
It is quite common for me to work for days to reach a contract milestone so I can get the check that I need to pay some expense.
I would not wish software consulting upon my very worst enemy.
