I used to work at one of the big corporations, and most people there probably worked ~10h a day, but was only paid for their 8h/day contract and given no overti

I used to work at one of the big corporations, and most people there probably worked ~10h a day, but was only paid for their 8h/day contract and given no overtime. I'm building my own company now, and honestly it consumes most of each day each week. The difference is, at my old job I'd spend ~8 of those 10 hours doing work that was mind-numbing and/or stressful, and only ~2 working on something I really enjoy. Even though I've probably done ~12-14h each day so far this month, I usually spend <1h of each day doing work I don't really want to do (invoicing, reducing the backlog of important-but-interesting issues on the queue, etc.), so I actually enjoy most of my day.