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The fact is that the nature of work changes at the c level. You are no longer doing any actual work yourself. You don’t prepare specifications, do analysis or any other for of work that you might recognize from before. You won’t touch any Microsoft products yourself. Your team does this. You are responsible for hiring people to build that team for you, so even people management is delegated to a large extent.

Most of your work is being present, either in meetings or work functions. These will include breakfast lunch and dinner, and something all three on the same day.

Your main focus is communication. This work extends to working within your own departments, the company, the rest of senior management, government, share holders, banks etc.

Most of your hours are not effective. You write them off. It’s understanding that you only have 10 hours a week of effective hours out of 80 hours and making sure those hours are actually effective.Effective time will be 5 minutes in an hour most likely.

That said some people are really good at juggling all of this bs, and some people are really terrible.

We can talk about different approaches and what works and what doesn’t, but it doesn’t change the fact that the 80 to 100 hour work week is real for a lot of people in that position.