Someone should provide some military perspective. They have a bit of documented experience with extreme working conditions and hours and responsibilities. On

Someone should provide some military perspective. They have a bit of documented experience with extreme working conditions and hours and responsibilities. On one hand in the reserves we were butts in seats about 1/10th the time of active duty soldiers so you'd theorize we did 1/10th the training of active soldiers, but I can assure you by the time you're done with semi-annual weapon cleaning, range qual time, aids briefing and test (do they still do that?), semi-annual review of DD214 and SGLI beneficiaries, PMCS the vehicles every saturday morning, group PT every sunday afternoon, once a year holiday party and once a year summer picnic, NBC training and mask cleaning, semiannual company wide PT tests, by the time you're done with all that we didn't really train in our MOS at all. Lower enlisted don't go to annual training they go to various classes. Somehow I never went to AT with my unit, somewhat unusual, but "most people" only go once or twice at most anyway. At any rate my point is if the BS load is a fixed amount of time, dropping the percentage of time you spend can have an extremely dramatic effect on the ratio of work to BS. I will admit that unlike a standard American 60 hr/wk workplace, when we worked, we actually worked, not goofed off while present. I would theorize that office cooler BS talk is a very fixed cost of not working remotely, people are going to goof off a minimum of 10 hours per week no matter how many hours of butt in seat you force on them. Another thing to keep in mind is the military has an enormous amount of experience with having young people get no sleep or rest and therefore require two months to accomplish about two weeks of learning, its called basic training. If you're attending one of the more cerebral post-basic training schools they force you to spend less than 40 hrs/wk in classroom thinking. And after you graduate aside from deployment / emergency / wartime events you spend less than 40 hrs/wk in office actually working. I can assure you the army does not care about your happiness or long term health, they simply have billions of human-hours of experience that you can get butts in seats any arbitrary number of hours up to near 168 hours per week, but you can only get working brains in seats maybe 30 to 40 hours per week and maximum total brain productivity regardless of IQ is around 30 hrs/wk. And this applies from the lowliest E1 doing accounting audits and sysadmin duties all the way up to the officers flying fighter planes, so no "I'm special because I'm smart and/or highly trained" BS.