I knew someone doing corporate accounting who left at 6 in the morning for work, and almost always came home after midnight. 7 days a week (because who needs w

I knew someone doing corporate accounting who left at 6 in the morning for work, and almost always came home after midnight. 7 days a week (because who needs weekends, right?). Since the work cycled quarterly trying to get "the numbers", the only thing that resembled a break was the end of a quarter; and even then, this pathetic "break" was like a single day because they felt they had to get started on the next quarter. He actually told me that divorces were fairly common among his co-workers. I wonder why. He appeared to be paid well but (as others have noted) certainly not nearly enough when you divide a seemingly-impressive salary into an hourly rate. And frankly I think peer pressure was a big problem. All throughout the chain, it's like they're all too afraid to be the first to say "wtf is this?" and propose a sane work week. If I extrapolate this type of job to the number of large companies out there, I am astounded by the number of people whose lives are essentially ruined by quarter-to-quarter. It's garbage. Decades ago companies did not seem so pressured to show results each quarter or come up with insane ways to avoid taxes; they just pursued a reasonable profit.