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>(Work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week.) Jesus. I'm sure this is small business owner hours but still, this person musn't have a family or any other commitmen
by voltagex_ 9y ago
>(Work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week.)
Jesus. I'm sure this is small business owner hours but still, this person musn't have a family or any other commitments.
- hawkice 9y agoThis is a typical work commitment in China. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2016-09/13/content_26779220.htm http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2016-09/13/content_2677... It's not luxuriously easy, but it's not ridiculous, and is microscopically different from _average_ working hours 150 years ago.
- marak830 9y agoI do that, I'm not the owner either. My wife just had a son, so I definitely have a family. Add on top an hour and a half commute each way and it can be a little difficult at times to have family time I'll admit.
- Double_a_92 9y agoWhy would you do that?
- adrianN 9y agoI hope you manage to reduce your hours until your son is old enough to remember whether you were there or not.
- marak830 9y agoI'm a chef, these are the hours expected of in this industry.
- astura 9y ago"Having a family," as in, relatives that physically exist, is obviously different from "having a family you value spending time with." I think it was clear the GP was talking about the latter.
- petercooper 9y agoFor some people, quality time with family is better than quantity. The key is to have those hours or days with the family focus. This is not even a workaholic or tech thing - it's the way military families have worked for centuries.
- marak830 9y agoWell I have a wide and son, which I quite enjoy spending time with. Not sure how you managed to take from anything I said that I don't. Some of us don't have a choice but to work jobs that require that many hours to pay the bills.
- heedlessly2 9y agoso with your schedule, you would be away from your family from 7:30am to 10:30 pm, 6 days per week. I doubt your spending any more than 30 mins per day with your son on weekdays.
- marak830 9y agoCorrect, I'm hoping to move a little closer to work to cut some of that commute off soon. My day off is all about family, so it's daily planned :-)
- marak830 9y ago* very well planned * Too late to edit haha.
- heedlessly2 9y agoso the other person's point is that although you have a family, you're not spending a lot of "quality" time with them
- taneq 9y ago15 hours a day away from home with an infant? Good god, man, stop! Spend some time with your wife and kid, or one day you'll wake up and they'll both have moved out because it's been years since they actually saw you conscious and you no longer have any kind of connection. (Unless you're doing this just for a very limited time for a very good reason. But don't let it become a lifestyle!)
- jimnotgym 9y agoYeah, I got stuck in that sentence. I know lots of people do these hours, but people from Henry Ford onwards have been finding people are more efficient with less hours. Then again if your job is learning about new tech, cooking and exercise-the sort of thing others are doing in their hobby time, I can see how you can make 12 hours of that a day.
- carlmr 9y ago>Then again if your job is learning about new tech, cooking and exercise-the sort of thing others are doing in their hobby time, I can see how you can make 12 hours of that a day. Taking these three things together I also have a 12-14h day. It's just that I don't cook or exercise for work.
- badpun 9y ago> people from Henry Ford onwards have been finding people are more efficient with less hours. On average. It's not impossible that there are outliers than can just work crazy hours without productivity decrease.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoI'm sure that's what they tell themselves.
- badpun 9y agoI remeber that the guy that made Diablo said that he can sustain 18 hour workdays for a couple months during a final crunch. Given how successful his product was, there may be something to it.
- edanm 9y agoAnd I'm sure that everyone is 1.77 metres tall, despite what people tell themselves.
- jimnotgym 9y agoIt's not impossible. It doesn't seem sensible for outliers to tell us ordinary people that we should be like them
- fergie 9y ago6 day weeks = 6/7 of 365 = 313 days work per year 12 hour days = 313 * 12 = 3756 hours work per year Hours per month = 3756 / 12 = 313 Hourly rate if $60000 per month = 60000/313 = $192