Were you competitive with your siblings as a child?are you still?
Not really, we were all different enough so that we never really competed because none of us were after the same things. Beth was the friendly approachable one, Becky was the waif beauty, Jim was the special needs kid, and I was the nerd. We lived in the same house but were in separate worlds.
So either way, you’re being fairly (or potentially, richly) compensated for working those hours, and are not being coerced or forced to do so.
I think that’s the big disconnect in the other thread: most of the people against >40hr weeks were specifically against involuntary >40hr weeks of the “unpaid overtime or you’re fired” variety, and I doubt anyone over there would have a problem with “If you want to bust your ass for us, we’ll shower you with rewards and incentives to do so”.
I mean, my employers are essentially paying for my 24/7/365 on call status (I wish I were kidding, I have met my contracted response times in between hands at a blackjack tournament at one point) with a nice little extra bump on my ESOP share, so I feel yah.
Why do you call yourself a workaholic, with 60 hours a week and weekends off?
Thats like normal ain’t it?
I don’t call myself a workaholic, I was called a workaholic in the thread I linked to in the OP.
If you work that many hours a week, how did you manage to spend 11 hours last month at your daughter’s school?
Looks like your wife works fewer hours than you do. Wouldn’t it be difficult to look after your daughter and your home if you both had to work 60 hours a week?
TBH, though, this thread doesn’t make you sound like a workaholic. I also don’t think the single throwaway comment in the other thread was supposed to be a concrete assertion that you are a workaholic.
Not last month, over the school year. We have to volunteer a minimum of 10 hours per parent, so far I have 11 (and will likely end with that).
Yes, it would be more difficult, but Laura doesn’t want to work 60 hours a week - carrying an attitude that causes fits in some people here, she is perfectly fine to be in the “mom” phase of her life and loves the fact that her primary responsibility is to Sophie.
As to the “workaholic” comment, note that I put “alleged” in the title - I don’t think I fit the definition as I understand it, but a number of people in the other thread said or implied that this was the case. It’s all a matter of perspective, of course.