I agree. I may be an old codger but when I think back on all the 16+ hour days I've worked the vast majority fell into a few categories: 80% Fixing some stupid

I agree. I may be an old codger but when I think back on all the 16+ hour days I've worked the vast majority fell into a few categories: 80% Fixing some stupid emergency drop everything issue that was somewhere between the user's keyboard and the oracle database. 19.99% Implementing some feature that got lost in the shuffle when clients are showing up tomorrow morning for a demo 0.01% Actually bringing the product forward and beating out the competition. Honestly, over fifteen years I can only think of a few days where I ended at 10pm and said "yeah, that was a good day, we really got ourselves ahead", more often than not it was "shit, at least we are barely above water." Of course YMMV