If you're going to work 80 hours a week, at least work for yourself, while doing something where you are free and where you can use your passion to fuel the ext

If you're going to work 80 hours a week, at least work for yourself, while doing something where you are free and where you can use your passion to fuel the extra work. Work in something that is fun for you, that will make you grow, that will help you to learn new things and hopefully it will allow you to build equity for yourself. Working 80 hours for someone else while sacrificing freedom, mental health, family time, leisure time and self-development time (although someone could argure that you will grow at that job) is simply financial stupidity. The return over investment through the lens of your needs hierarchy will yield incredibly low results. Life is short. Your impact at a company like Tesla is going to be nominal regardless of how many hours you put into work. There are some exceptions to that, but that would be the case for most. If you are going to drink that kool-aid of "here we work long and hard because we are changing the world", at least be ready to face the realization that this might not be true. It will definitely not be true at the scale of your micro-universe where more significant things like relationships and health will be affected. If it's an early startup, there's a chance that you can have exponential impact by putting more hours into work, but still, 80 hours is not gonna accomplish anything for anyone, especially in this BS tech culture where people work hard for the optics and rarely because doing it can lead to concrete and actionable decisions and progress. If you're going to work 80 hours for someone else, don't tell anyone that you're working 80 hours. Don't use it as a badge of honor. Don't try to capitalize on your suffering. It makes you look stupid.