[arosier]

This happened to me. I was working 40 hours per week but saying I was working 75 hours per week (without really measuring it). Then I got a second job which made it more important to manage my time effectively (including measuring my time). With the second job, I actually started working 72 hours per week and realized how hard it is to work that much time due to the necessities in life (sleeping, eating/shopping, bathing, commuting, ect) not to mention all the distractions that come up during work when you think you have more then 40 hours to complete all your work.

I recommend anyone try to work that much for a few months, it really puts perspective on how limited our time is and the value of time management.

[notfromhere]

Also puts into perspective how much of a mental wear working 70+ hours is.

I did it for a few months - really starts breaking you down as a human being.

[Gibbon1]

30 years ago I did 70 hours a week for 12 weeks and have RSI in one of my wrists as a result.

[yeukhon]

I used to really work 70-100 hours of week. You would see me responding to Nagios emails at 3am. Mind we didn’t use PagerDuty. I enjoyed it because I had nothing to do outside of work. After three years I ended up choosing a different job and have a better wlb.