Cutting your salary by 40%

Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by megous on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:39AM (#15275789)

> For another, anecdotally at least, most people know plenty of people who work longer hours and do it successfully. And most of the really successful people out there will mention that they worked insanely hard at some point. Are they all lying? All wrong?

You have it reversed. Get a sample of people working 70 hours a week and see how many are successful by some chosen measure compared to those who work 40 hours.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by Godel_unicode on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:56AM (#15275925)

I don't think so. Everyone isn't the same, some people have more or less capacity to handle long hours. I personally feel that mastery and enjoyment have a large role in how many hours you can work.

If you're working on something you love and are good at, you're going to be productive longer. I think just measuring hours is missing the point.

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Re:Cutting your salary by 40% by s73ver_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:53PM (#15277991)

I have no doubt that I could easily work more hours than I do now. But then I would have no time to do other things in my life.

I have zero interest in handing the rest of my free time over to my employer, especially for free.

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