Only 40 hours?
This article on the importance of a 40 hour work week is apt. “Why We Have to Go Back to a 40 Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity” sounds like a rallying cry for many of us. And the reasons we do it span the gamut from “under-resourced team in a shitty economy” to “CEO OR BUST.” Mostly though, it’s because we want to keep our jobs and the income they provide (food, shelter, travel!). And we don’t want our co-workers to hate us because we don’t deliver.
The last couple of weeks I’ve added something to the challenges of having a team member sitting in Singapore, which is exactly 12 hours ahead of us: “extra-curriculars.” These are passion projects akin to the 50 billion clubs I was a member of in college, or high school. You’re still doing work in the corporate world&151;just not the stuff they pay you to do.
So do those hours put me past the 40, giving me work to gripe about, or should I just accept that it’s a part of my personality to always need to be bustling about and suck it up?
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