I worked 80 hours a week at a startup for about six months where we weren't sure we were getting paid unless we shipped to customers so we had to get things don

I worked 80 hours a week at a startup for about six months where we weren't sure we were getting paid unless we shipped to customers so we had to get things done but I was the only programmer at that time. I worked 12 months in 70+ hours a week crunch on one game project (I found documentation here https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131533/postmortem_blizzards_diablo_ii.php https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131533/postmortem_bli...) - remember the motivation speech was we had to finish or we were all getting fired but I never felt like it was ever as hard as the startup - it was a larger team effort so I was hardly ever the one thing holding up progress. YMMV.