Too Many Hours

So last week was week three of a 60 plus hour work week.

This is not a terribly sustainable plan.

It all happens quite innocently at first, of course:  an emergency comes up and it needs to be dealt with.  So you stay late and deal with it - after all, it is your responsibility to do so.  So you work hard, get some things done, and leave feeling that you accomplished something.

And then you come in the next day.  And a new emergency occurs.  And again, you are scrambling to make sure everything gets done.  You end up missing Iai  class the whole week because of work.

And then you finding yourself at sixty plus hours, checking your phone right after you get up and after you have left work.   Your life comes focused down to a lack of sleep, a lack of activities, and getting things done.

And then it spills over into week two.  And then into week three.

You know something is off when you get a comment both from your father and your wife to make sure you are "taking care of yourself" when they usually do not say such things (because there is no need to).

I am not sure what the solution is.  But I am pretty sure the solution does not include "rinse and repeat" until eternity.  No amount of money makes this kind of life sustainable.

I have no idea how people really do it.