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> When did it become something we have to love and wrap up so much of our self-image into? When we started spending 50, 60 hours a week at work. Even at 40 hou
by spacemanaki 13y ago
> When did it become something we have to love and wrap up so much of our self-image into?
When we started spending 50, 60 hours a week at work. Even at 40 hours a week, it's exhausting to try to find any real time to devote to hobbies and "extracurricular" learning outside of work. If you feel like you're stagnating, feeling like you're wasting those 40 hours of life every week, why stay, just because "work is a financial transaction" ?
- jfoutz 13y agoThis is absolutely it. When you're happy and engaged, it's easy to burn through 60 hour weeks, year after year. But when that passion starts to fade 12 hour days are an express ticket to burnout.
- BSousa 13y agoI'll call bull. No matter how much passion, 60 hours a week year after year will destroy your personal/social life, and most likely your health as well. Happy or sad, 12 hours a day is not sustainable and specially not something we should look forward to just because 'I love my job' crap