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It's funny how the body adjusts. At my last company (I was a director. 1 of 4) we had a MASSIVE problem with working long ours. At the end I was working 100 hou
by coenhyde 14y ago
It's funny how the body adjusts. At my last company (I was a director. 1 of 4) we had a MASSIVE problem with working long ours. At the end I was working 100 hour weeks (I only ever had time to eat sleep and work). I pulled the plug after a few years of these self imposed insane hours. You would assume all would be well then but what happened next was completely unexpected.
I fell ill 3 times in the following 3 months, and I was on holidays! Previously I hadn't been sick for years. After a bit of researching I discovered after a period of intense stress, it's pretty common to get sick once you remove that stress.
- z303 14y agoI had the same coming from working similar hours at a game company. I took two weeks off between jobs and had a massive crash, which took me months to recover from
- zoltarSpeaks 14y agoThis falling ill thing is really interesting and not something i'd come across before. This perhaps goes someway to explaining why it's quite easy to get ill over the Christmas period. The stress in getting all your work done before the break and then an immediate halt of pressure.
- bajsejohannes 14y agoI remember back in school, I would always get sick during the vacation after an exam. I'm pretty sure it wasn't confirmation bias, and with what you're saying, it even seems plausible. Do you have any links to that research?
- siculars 14y agoThat true. My bro, a doctor, actually said that mortality rates dramatically increase during a short time (3yr) after retirement. Rapidly removing stress can be as bad for your health as prolonged exposure to it.
- dhbanes 14y agoMeh.. wouldn't you expect mortality rates to increase dramatically as one approaches the end of their life? Correlation ≠ causation.
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