"The other side is that it's not a life worth living if you spend 40 hours a week doing something you avoid the other 128 hours." - Its not that you hate it. Bu

"The other side is that it's not a life worth living if you spend 40 hours a week doing something you avoid the other 128 hours." - Its not that you hate it. But you should not fill your life with just one activity. You should be networking, talking, going out, learning, traveling and filling your life with a wide variety of things. Yet the start up programmer lifestyle is programming 24/7. It's not healthy. I can guarantee you a lot of start up founders, don't work the hours their programmers do.