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Subject:Re: Average Hours Worked From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:47:32 -0700 (PDT)
<bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com> wrote
>
> My take on the whole "Cult of Long Hours"
situation
> is that it is just another manifestation of our
> victim culture. The people who are bragging
about
> their long hours are really saying, "Look at
how
> much I suffer for my job. Woe is me. Respect me
> because I am so overworked."
Some people actually enjoy working a more open-ended
schedule where they will gleefully put in 80+ hours a
week. I work at least that, but I love my work and I
have control over my life. So working long hours is
not anything to be proud of, its just the way things
are. I don't even really know how much I work each
week.
Generally, people who like what they do, don't have a
problem doing it - a lot. A real writer who truly
loves to write is always writing. Its something they
just do as a matter of being. Its the people who must
force themselves to work that generally don't want to
actually work.
Andrew Plato
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