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Re:I quit the tech industry by Retric on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:14AM (#9691460)
A 40 hour a week job works out to ~1/3 of your time while awake which is fine. ~(40 * 48)/(16 * 365)

The problem is it's easy to get worse than that add a 1h each way commute and 10 hour days, and skip vacations that's half your waking life. ~(60 * 50)/(16 * 365) And of course you need a few hours a day just for prep time and meals etc so quickly you only get free time to relax on the weekends.

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Re:I quit the tech industry by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:16AM (#9691477)
Right; its important to realize that the marginal cost of work hours goes up geometrically. There are only so many in the day, and each remaining one becomes more desperately important.
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