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I would general agree with this but I think it comes down more towards the type of person you are and the way jobs and study are viewed.

University is seen as a fixed term situation and is at an individual level. Here are the things you need to do, now go and do them by this time. Work is kind of the same but you have set hours that you are willing to do the work in. Generally this is 9ish-5ish. Your boss accepts that you have a life outside of your work(I hope) and will accept that you can only do so much during your set working hours. There will be times that you have to put in extra hours in the evenings or weekends but this should never be the norm. The time frame for the completion of a project is usually based on there only being a certain amount of time each week that any one person can give to the job. You can increase and decrease the amount of workers to change the completion time. While at University it is at an individual level and you cannot increase or decrease your clones. Being at University it is up to you to decide how many hours you are to spend on learning or completing something.

I know when I was a student I certainly spent over the "normal" 40 hours a week on my studies. During the end of my degree I was in the 80+ hours a week. This really does depend on the person though. Some people will do the bare minimum to scrape through with Cs and might not spend over 40 hours a week. I invested pretty much all of my time on my studies, so for me my workload took up a far higher amount of time during my degree than it does at my current job. This is all based on working for a company, not a startup(yours or someone else’s) or contracting. They pose different parameters around working hours, workloads and motivations.