Depends if you do what you do strictly as a vocation, or you can't believe they pay you to do shit that you'd be doing anyway. If it's the latter, it generally

Depends if you do what you do strictly as a vocation, or you can't believe they pay you to do shit that you'd be doing anyway. If it's the latter, it generally comes back, but you might need to change job or workplace. Over the years I've worked plenty times 84-94 hour weeks for months at a time, but that was project work with a foreseeable end and in a fully catered mining/construction camp or offshore where they made your bed every day for you, meals on tap etc etc. But a few times I had to do the same hours close to home and going home every night, and it just killed me, the overheads are all yours so a lot harder, plus family don't get you have no free time, because they can see you. So, it's not just the hours, it is also the structure around them, if there is actual light at the end of the tunnel, and so on.