The exhaustion epidemic | Woman | The Observer
We’ll work at home but we’ll do so until 1.30am. We can leave the office at 7pm on a Friday - although we’re too tired for a movie - but it means we’ll be looking at and responding to emails on Sunday.
Ouch. I was reading this while waiting for the compilation I’m running on my work computer via remote desktop to complete. Pretty much spot on then.
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BUT if working is your hobby and you like doing it, then it’s the same as playing, no?
I don’t like the way we’re encouraged to categorise these things. Some work is fun, and some play is hard work.
I would differentiate paid work for my employer from things like programming in my spare time tbh. Possibly especially if I enjoy doing it.
Not sure where my divide would be. I love selling, i love designing, but the grind of parcel packing, which is the thing that keeps me up late and beyond exhausted..that’s work. SIGH.
Interesting how things we do just to get money quickly start feeling like hard work. I’m sure it’s got something to do with autonomy: things we do through choice are fun and things we do because we feel we HAVE to are not fun. Even though they can be the same or very similar activities.
“70 hours? That’s the first three days of the week at Goldman Sachs”
See also this article.
A lot of this is really presenteeism. It is one thing to work long hours, it is quite another to work effectively for long hours.
So if Goldman Sachs are happy to have second raters there then that is up to them, but there is no way on earth these people are performing at their peak. Macho bullshit and bad management.