The career I just retired from was routinely 14-16 hour days, 7 days a week, for months or years on end with maybe a couple weeks off. You get into a weird men

The career I just retired from was routinely 14-16 hour days, 7 days a week, for months or years on end with maybe a couple weeks off. You get into a weird mental space where you are halfway auto pilot and halfway conscious, and your brain has a really hard time staying focused without being forced to. Hard to explain, but if you’ve been there it makes sense. Note that this was working, among other places, on nuclear reactors and on flight decks in the US Navy. This is absolutely normal there, and those are fairly dangerous places to be.