[paulojreis]

Tangentially to the article, this whole sacrifice of personal life is starting to make me think about other options. And I don't even work long hours.

Last week I had to travel, to work abroad for that week. To be there on Monday morning, I flew Sunday just after lunch. I missed around 25% of my weekend and all the "after-work" time and activities I usually have. I just moved (within the same city, a few days before traveling), and my girlfriend had to finish the packing, cleaning and all that fun stuff by herself.

It was not a big deal actually, as it doesn't happen frequently, but - with this post - it got me thinking. Shouldn't we make a bigger deal of it? The fact that companies expects this kind of commitment - very outside working hours - reveals so much about the inequality in the employee-employer relationship.

And I'm not even mentioning the fact that I work on a country where I'm paid x, but was traveling to work in a country where my fellow associates in similar functions are paid 4-5x. :)

[cjhopman]

It seems that the author assumes that readers uderstand that the comparison is between the described lives/jobs with ones in the past where it was basically you never see your family (or, more likely, you don't have one).

[paulojreis]

Yeah, sure, ergo tangentially.