[mewpmewp2]

Not everyone has a s.o. In addition you can work remotely, order everything in, and nothing truly terrible happens skipping a week of hygiene.

I think I frequently have days like that if I add my side projects as work on top of actual work. I wouldn't want to spend that time on actual work as of now though.

I usually don't eat for the first 12 hours and then at some point eat everything I have for the day all at once. Kind of intermittent fasting, but not intentionally or for those reasons.

I.e. if I am excited about a particular side project I would do that.

So really depends on whether the work is exciting enough. If it is, this would be easy. It is rare if you are working for someone else or specifically a large company though.

If it is truly interesting work then you wake up focus completely in it and all of sudden it is end of day. In that case it is a little bit like an addiction where you just always have to build this one thing more, delaying eating, sleep, etc.

For usual work I would maybe only consider it if I was paid 4x the usual hourly rate for it.

[kuchenbecker]

My wife covered the slack that week and I'm 100% family after 6pm most nights

[mewpmewp2]

Covered the slack? I do not follow.

Edit: oh you must mean household chores, I was thinking about the App. That your wife was so pissed off she decided to cover the monitor your Slack was open on.

[wkat4242]

What's the point though of working so much you have no time left to live your life? Making money is just a means to be able to live IMO.

[mewpmewp2]

There's different styles to it, depending on where you live, how your life is, and it means to "live your life" for you. E.g. you could have certain periods where you work really, really hard, and then you take a longer break, month, 3 months, 6 months, etc. Or you could work really hard to try and get an early state of financial independence. At that point living life becomes very easy, because you know you can just quit to do whatever you want, you are not dependent on anyone else so much less stress. Otherwise job market, your company state, leadership etc will be unnecessary stressors.

[Willish42]

I completely agree but I will say that as somebody who intellectually understands that principle, overwork and burnout are still insanely common and arguably even rewarded in some work cultures / tech in general, and I screw this up a lot.

Even people who understand this rule / philosophy end up violating it if they're not careful.

... and with that I think I'm probably going to sign off for the day. It's late.

[sandspar]

Cuz for some people work is fun. It's like asking a guy who likes fishing why he fishes so much. "But you've already caught enough for dinner...?"

[interbased]

Agreed. I’ve put in days where I did nothing but work because the project was fun and also due in a week or very soon. Food really doesn’t take that long especially if you order in or pick up close by. Doing this consistently though would surely lead to burnout. Unless, of course, you just consistently love the project you’re working on. Even then, you need a break.