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>He tells the modern internet techie's narrative of stress and tiredness is just plain whining, complaining and asking for sympathy. Pretty much. When I was st
by icelancer 13y ago
>He tells the modern internet techie's narrative of stress and tiredness is just plain whining, complaining and asking for sympathy.
Pretty much. When I was starting up my company, I was putting in 50 hour weeks at my IT job that I hated and another 10-30 (depending on mood) developing the tech and business processes for my current startup.
We don't get to punch the clock and expect greatness.
- ryanbrunner 13y agoBut isn't this article saying the exact opposite of this? It may be counter-intuitive, but every serious study I've seen regarding the amount that people work consistently says that 40 hours (or less) is ideal, and exceeding that for an extended duration (where "extended" is a very small amount of time like a few weeks) leads to negative productivity. It seems like there's often a lot of cognitive dissonance going on in these threads - when we're talking about managers or people other than us telling us to work > 40 hours a week, it's widely accepted as counterproductive, but when we do it ourselves, we ignore the data and revert back to platitudes about pushing yourself harder and not being complacent.
- Dewie 13y agoThose studies might have involved people doing one job for all those hours, while the grandparent worked two jobs. Depending on how different they were, the variety might have been enough to offset some of the fatigue of working up to 80 hours a week in total.
- GFischer 13y agoThe GP post saiys he hated his 40-hour job, so we can assume he wasn't at his most productive there (it happens to me too).