>> Why are some people always suspicious of others who work a lot ?
Sometimes it's bragging. Sometimes it's somewhat delusional. A lot of folks who say they work that long don't really.
To be forced to do that much is awful, to do it voluntarily is probably obsessive.
We absolutely do not want that to become 'normal' or accepted. As others have mentioned, our forebears fought very hard to get the right to a family life, the right to time away from the grind. We shouldn't give it up so easily.
Working 16+ hour days is not sustainable in the long term and is counter productive. Usually when people say they work "80-90 hours a week" I take it with a grain of salt.
Working 80-90 hours a week remotely with the freedom to work from an environment that you find relaxing is a lot different than working 80-90 hours a week in an office or dealing every day with the stresses of traffic and commuting. Yesterday I was laying in a hammock feeling the breeze come in off the lake and listening to the birds while working on my laptop. I couldn't work 80-90 hours a week if I didn't have the ability to look up from my laptop and instantly feel relaxed.
Sometimes it's bragging. Sometimes it's somewhat delusional. A lot of folks who say they work that long don't really.
To be forced to do that much is awful, to do it voluntarily is probably obsessive.
We absolutely do not want that to become 'normal' or accepted. As others have mentioned, our forebears fought very hard to get the right to a family life, the right to time away from the grind. We shouldn't give it up so easily.
It's also likely to be really unhealthy.