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Originally Posted by dinonz
!0 years ago when we started our company, I was doing 12-20 hours a day, 7 days a week. Basically, I'd be up about 7 and work through till between midnight and 3am, with occasionally stops for meals (which would be eaten at my desk). Did that for about the first 4-5 years, 100-120 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. I put in about 20,000 hours then.
After that I idalled it back to more like 60-80 a week, still 7 days, still 52 weeks a year (in 10 years I've probably had 10 weeks vacation total).
Now, I'm working closer to normal hours, but still 7 days. And I'm tired, worn out, and probably burned out.
I hope it was all worth it.
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You've got to be bulletproof. I worked 100 hours a week for six months straight renovating a four story hotel into apartments during the day and refurbishing the hotel where I was staying in the evenings. Both hotels were owned by the same guy. The one I was staying in was for his daughter to run. After six months of that I was exhausted. I can't imaging putting in hours like that for years.