Honestly, it's a different thing to be in a position where a job is monitoring -- IE, 8 hours of the day are meetings, 3-4 hours a day are tracking and writing

Honestly, it's a different thing to be in a position where a job is monitoring -- IE, 8 hours of the day are meetings, 3-4 hours a day are tracking and writing email. I can work 12 hours a day doing that because it's not that difficult. It feels like work, it is work. However, it's not banging your head against the wall on a problem, or writing documentation, or... Creative positions have a maximum output. Sometimes, I've worked more hours because the other time is taken up by meetings, and I don't burn out nearly as quickly as when I'm working to write or debug code. As such, I wonder if the hiring advice is better for sales/management.