[jameshush]

Ding ding ding! This person understands. You will NEVER be able to grow a department if you work 80 hours a week hero coding. The longer you work the more irritated you become. The more irritated you are the less people will like you. When enough people hate you you’ll be fired.

Learned the hard way in my early 20s. Now I only put in the extra hours when the site is down, I’m on pager duty, and we’re losing 100k+ dollars every few minutes. I’m friendly and very organized. I manage my own Jira board and let my boss know when we need more people on a project. Definitely not a programming wizard but boy can I get two different departments working together.

[aprdm]

Yeah it is crazy to hear some people work 60h as the norm and 80h, wtf?

I've done a couple of 50-60h stints in my career for rolling out a big project globally or things like that and I was... absolutely... exhausted and drained.

I couldn't think straight, I was being rude to people I love.

To think that people can actually put this amount of hours constantly (am talking 60h!!!) is mind blowing. Maybe my brain is just different and it can't do more than the regular hours.