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by MattGaiser 2024 days ago
I think it depends on how much you enjoy your work compared to other options available for allocating your time. I had a friend who routinely worked 7 days a week as an intern in technology at a bank. Nowhere near that was expected of him, not even close. Everyone else treated it as a 9 to 5, but he would be online at 3AM on Saturday asking questions on how to do X or whether Y was a good design choice.

Obviously this is an extreme example, but some people just love what they are doing and happen to get paid for it and in this case he was in love with his project.
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Xenoamorphous 2023 days ago
At what point it becomes unhealthy/ an addiction though?

I enjoy having sex, but if I have sex 7 times a day I probably have a problem.

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yowlingcat 2023 days ago
> I have sex 7 times a day I probably have a problem.

If that sex results in you having enough children to take care of you and work on/build a family empire with you, you may have more of a solution than a problem. Historically speaking, this happened quite frequently with male royalty.

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