A person was mentioning today that for the most part his job requires him to work on average 12 to 16 hour days. When it comes to sleep, everyone was wondering how he could survive doing it for so long and he mentioned that you just get used to not needing sleep eventually. Afterwards, he threw in a comment about how the overtime he gets paid really makes it worth at the end and motivates him to do so.

On one end if you are really passionate about what you do then it doesn’t really matter how many hours you put in as I’m sure it doesn’t really feel like work to you. On the other hand, going through gruesome hours like that solely for money is something that I personally avoid.

I always found that if you are over working yourself in that way mainly for money then it is time to find a way to leverage yourself. A trade off between your health and money doesn’t exactly seem like a good long-term choice.

I was talking to a person recently who started working in construction at a very young age. As a result, he is very well off financially and can pretty much do things such as buy his own condo without requiring any type of loaned money.

Unfortunately, as a result he mentions that he has pretty much burnt out his body now and can’t do things such as lift extremely heavy objects anymore. He can still do everyday things though without any real trouble and is in his early thirties, but as apparent he can’t work in a physically intensive field anymore.

When I asked him on whether or not he regretted it he was pretty contempt overall it seemed but mentioned that at the time it was mainly money that was in his mind. This isn’t meant to be a one of those sap stories as obviously the person is living fine. But what it did make me think of is how if you are doing anything that compromises your health that making less money now to be healthier can mean making more money overall in your lifetime.