How does one work 50+ hours a week? - Page 6

Has anyone here read "The 4-Hour workweek" by Timothy Ferriss? It's a great book, highly recommended.

50-100 hours a week? What a horrible way to live.

Hahahaha, college boy realized that what he studied is boring and he's gonna be miserable for the rest of his life, along with all the other suckers!!!

LOL!

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I wasn't used to the 50 hour work weeks as an engineer, but once you start the work you realize that you just can't accomplish all your tasks in 40 hours. It took me about a month to adjust and now i'm doing 50-60 hours a week on a regular basis.

Well obv. if they want you to work 50 hours they are going to give you 50 hours worth of tasks. That doesn't make it right or appropriate.

You're saying you have nothing better to occupy your time than work. Personally, I could pick any number of interesting and fulfilling activities to occupy my time.

Most likely I would pursue some form of venture, whether it be charity, creative, or otherwise.

If you are busy and under a lot of pressure, you don't even notice the time passing. You can blink your eyes and 12 hours is gone.

Yeah, some people can do that. But why not choose choose my 'life's work' correctly the first time? If anything, this thread has encouraged me to never stray from the warm embrace of government employment.

As someone who has "been there and done it", forget being successful without putting in the hours. To be successful requires effective human interaction in addition to whatever task is required to do. Human interaction takes time, there is no short cut. That is where the hours add up.

So, pick a field that you enjoy and develop the interaction skills required to influence people effectively and to motivate them.

But, all that being said, it is a normal part of growing up and maturing to come to terms with this. If you like what you do, and are motivated to succeed, you will adjust and probably find it very fullfilling.

Good luck!

lol @ 100 hours a week, thats what hmm 14 hour days everyday. Calling bullshit on that one. work smarter, dont work harder or longer. Owning your own business is a way to lift yourself out of the rat race if you are smart and dont build it around you working longer/harder. Certainly in the beginning you need to put in hours networking, planning and starting investments, but once you get the ball rolling you should be spending less time on the grunt work. Hire good people, and run the workings of you business and network. I certainly put hours into networking, but i can hardly call it work, i love it, and usually its things i like to do anyways like go out to Breakfast lunch or dinner, or to a bar for a couple drinks. I dont golf, but eventually i'll add that to the list also.

60 is what i do allready, leaving out studying. The hard part is figuring out where you want to end up, and what you like to do while getting there. Now if I could figure that out myself I could turn those 90 hour weeks doing a myriad of jobs into a more constructive path...