Oh, sometimes it is in the wee hours of the morning when I'm going blind from staring at the monitor for so long and my brain is cramping. The good thing though is I've never required a great deal of sleep and 6 hours will freshen me up just fine.
You got no time to post a thread! Get back to work boy!
I sorta feel your pain....I work 70 hours a week some weeks. But I own my own business, so the payoff is survival and one day mad riches
I sorta feel your pain....I work 70 hours a week some weeks. But I own my own business, so the payoff is survival and one day mad riches
dear god, no.
I'm working long hours right now because we're in the midst of opening a new office and have a lot of work to do running cables, getting desks setup, security (prox card readers, retinal scanners, security cameras) up and running, etc... but it's nowhere close to 100 hours in a week.
taking the hour drive each way into account, I'm probably working about 11-12 hours/day right now.
I'm working long hours right now because we're in the midst of opening a new office and have a lot of work to do running cables, getting desks setup, security (prox card readers, retinal scanners, security cameras) up and running, etc... but it's nowhere close to 100 hours in a week.
taking the hour drive each way into account, I'm probably working about 11-12 hours/day right now.
Been working about 70hrs a week since last June doing 2 programming jobs, with a wife and newborn to boot.
Positives: Only one. Money, lots of it. I've paid about 25K worth of car and credit card debt in the past 6 months, all on a single income while buying a new house and having a baby. We are now debt free except for the house. Now I'm moving on to building actual savings for the first time in my life (26yrs old)
Negative: I've have pretty much zero free time, between working, coming home and spending time with my son and wife, and then pulling out the laptop and working some more. The 2nd job probably wont last past December, and the idea of only working 40hrs a week now seems like a cakewalk.
Positives: Only one. Money, lots of it. I've paid about 25K worth of car and credit card debt in the past 6 months, all on a single income while buying a new house and having a baby. We are now debt free except for the house. Now I'm moving on to building actual savings for the first time in my life (26yrs old)
Negative: I've have pretty much zero free time, between working, coming home and spending time with my son and wife, and then pulling out the laptop and working some more. The 2nd job probably wont last past December, and the idea of only working 40hrs a week now seems like a cakewalk.
my last job i worked 120 hours in 9 days , my body was physically just worn out after that but you have to meet deadlines during outages.
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Anyone who works 100+ hours a week, and has a family, is a horrible family man.
Its good that its worth it to you, but I hope your family feels its worth it to them.
Take no offense, that's a generalization, but if you are actually successful in this (which as a self-driven self-employed person as well, I really hope you are), it will probably motivate you to work equally hard, and the saga for everyone continues...
Its good that its worth it to you, but I hope your family feels its worth it to them.
Take no offense, that's a generalization, but if you are actually successful in this (which as a self-driven self-employed person as well, I really hope you are), it will probably motivate you to work equally hard, and the saga for everyone continues...
I too am a small-business owner, so I'm no stranger to 80+ hour weeks; however, working 100+ hours for any sustained period is a bit ridiculous. How could you possibly have that much work? Whenever I or any of our people works anywhere close to 80 hours a week, we're sure to reevaluate current scheduling to ensure it doesn't continue. It's not healthy, and it's usually an indication of a larger problem, imo.
That said, if you can sustain it and you seem to be productive with it, then more power to you. In my experience though, people that work long hours usually cause a lot more trouble than the extra effort is worth; the long hours tend to exacerbate the problems.
That said, if you can sustain it and you seem to be productive with it, then more power to you. In my experience though, people that work long hours usually cause a lot more trouble than the extra effort is worth; the long hours tend to exacerbate the problems.
Is this 7 days a week or 5? Either seems totally ridiculous... It has to be 7 since at 5 days 100/5= 20 and youre left with 4 hours per day so you cant even sleep... with 14 hours per day you sleep 6 and spend 4 with family? I really hope its worthwhile... I cant see how that is "living" at all
I have had a few 95+ hours weeks (just working M-F and then going in Sunday night) and that wasn't fun, but it wasn't too bad. Went to work at 6 AM and left at 12AM.
But doing that for 6+ months, that's hardcore.
But doing that for 6+ months, that's hardcore.
lol, right now, it's all for free. I don't make money until the company makes money, and we only just launched this project. All the work so far has been leading up to this.
Yep, I'm talking 7 days a week. 5 days a week would be too ridiculous even for me.
Descartes, it's pretty much been a one man show. I've had the project to code, learning along the way because I've never done anything this complex before; learning about servers and databases, setup, maintenance and security; putting my project down on paper, creating a business plan, pitching it to investors and getting the financial backing; forming a new company in the States, and all that entails, all the while doing so from Mexico; putting together company operational procedure, finding and opening an office, hiring employees and trainging them; creating and developing all of the marketing and sales; and always the never ending coding, day in and day out.
And there's a million other details I've left out.
Oh, and I don't want to give the wrong impression; it's not every week that tallies up to 100+ hours, just most of them. Some weeks I take a break and only work 80 - 90 hours.
I used to work 100+ hour weeks occasionally. My brain would be completely fried if I did two in a row. I remember feeling good while working so hard... I'd think,"what an animal I am!!" I make much more money and work much less now but I still look back on those days as really great times.
Hey now, that's since 2001! And for quite a while, 2 or 3 years ago, I actually wasn't doing much work at all, maybe a few hours a day. I'd wake up in the morning, do a little e-mail, maybe a little site maintenance, play UT all day and nef here.Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
*Looks at jjones' lifer status*
*quietly exits thread*
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