Manlio Rules

Recently, my job has insisted on a fairly large amount of hours of my time per week. Something like 80 hours a week. And the funny thing is, that while that seems like an insane amount of time to me, it’s still not near the 100 hour weeks that I always her about from lawyers and consultants and other serious people. I mean, I easily put in a 12-14 hour day, every day, which gets me to 60-65 hours. Saturdays are a full work day but usually only 8-10 hours, which bring us to around 68-73, and then inevitably there’s one really late night a week, which adds on another 5-6 hours, so, we’re around 74-78… see, i can’t even get to 80 hours! how do people work 100 hours a week? i’m doing nothing but working and coming home and i’m only working 75 hours a week. i suppose if i added sundays as a full day, that would be a good start, but good god! anyway i now think that pretty much all success comes from the willingness to put in at least two to three times more work than the other guy, and it sure helps if that time isn’t spent re-doing the work you did in the first 40 hours.

the only other thing that i’m doing is getting up at 6:45 to work out 3 days a week. tomorrow is our final assessment, where i will run 1.5 miles and hopefully do it faster than my original time, which was 12:57. I’m pretty sure i can shave at least 30 seconds off that, my goal is 12:30 which i think should be totally achievable. my long term goal is to get that down to 12 even, which will probably require losing the 10-15lbs i’ve gained by being at work 12 hours a day in a place with endless snacks. sigh. endless snacks.