6 days a week at, on average, 8 hours a day is just not sustainable. You'd have to scale that back to about 6 hours a day, and that's still pushing it because y

6 days a week at, on average, 8 hours a day is just not sustainable. You'd have to scale that back to about 6 hours a day, and that's still pushing it because you're not giving yourself enough time to unwind and work on you and yours. I cannot stress this enough: you need time away from work, whether or not you think you need it Anything over 40 hours is not sustainable in most professions, but in technology it's even more evident, whether it's ops, dev, networking, or even management. Overextending yourself will lead to careless mistakes, leading to increased work throughout the team just to clean up the fallout, leading to burnout because you and your peers have simply taken on too much, resulting in an eventual disgust of the profession altogether. Sure you can do it for a while, and money definitely smooths over some bullshit, but it's just not sustainable. My point is: work to live, don't live to work