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> If success had a formula, everyone would follow it. If, indeed, work could be defined in some specific manner, everyone would know what it was. No, they woul
by buckbova 10y ago
> If success had a formula, everyone would follow it. If, indeed, work could be defined in some specific manner, everyone would know what it was.
No, they wouldn't follow it if the model for success is working 130 hours a week.
Most people, including myself, would just give out. Even if I knew there was some vast fortune and a windfall success in a year or two, I couldn't hack that kind of work load.
- PedroBatista 10y agoYes, you could. She's not a cobblestone paver working under the Sun. Her job is being a boss and do the bullshitting that comes with it while earning a couple millions every month. Are you telling me you couldn't handle it for 1 year?
- galdosdi 10y agoInterestingly, the kind of people who are willing to do this kind of thing usually do it for much longer than a year or however long it takes to accumulate more than enough money to never have to work again
- dpark 10y agoI'm pretty sure I couldn't. If you literally work for 130 hours/week, you have less than 5.5 hours for hygiene, food, and sleep. So maybe 4 hours of sleep per day if you're really efficient at everything else and never leave the office. I couldn't get by on that for long. Either Marissa Mayer doesn't sleep or she's grossly exaggerating. I met a bunch of folks at Yahoo who had this same pretend-to-work-long-hours philosophy. If asked, they'd claim to work 10+ hours/day but actually showed up at noon and left at 7pm and rarely seemed to do anything from home. My interpretation was that long hours were expected and the easiest thing was to just pretend to be doing them.