And of course the asymmetry between being the CEO of the company, where you sit only in the meetings of your choice and where everyone tries to make you happy v

And of course the asymmetry between being the CEO of the company, where you sit only in the meetings of your choice and where everyone tries to make you happy vs. having to sit in meetings any manager in your chain scheduled and expects you to make him/her happy. In general, there is a huge difference between working many hours when you can decide on a whim what to work on vs. having to work many hours on something you have been put on. When working on things I decide to work on, I often have put in enormous amounts of hours, but that cannot be compared with the typical paid work. (I am quite lucky to have a job with relative freedom, but the more I notice it, when there are projects which limit this freedom)