[kuchenbecker]

Ive worked a 110 hour week, a few 80-100 hour weeks.

But stable state more than 60 burnout is within a month.

[ein0p]

That must also be some weird definition of work. Otherwise this doesn’t even leave time for meals, personal hygiene or for communicating with your s.o, let alone any kind of rest.

[mewpmewp2]

Not everyone has a s.o. In addition you can work remotely, order everything in, and nothing truly terrible happens skipping a week of hygiene.

I think I frequently have days like that if I add my side projects as work on top of actual work. I wouldn't want to spend that time on actual work as of now though.

I usually don't eat for the first 12 hours and then at some point eat everything I have for the day all at once. Kind of intermittent fasting, but not intentionally or for those reasons.

I.e. if I am excited about a particular side project I would do that.

So really depends on whether the work is exciting enough. If it is, this would be easy. It is rare if you are working for someone else or specifically a large company though.

If it is truly interesting work then you wake up focus completely in it and all of sudden it is end of day. In that case it is a little bit like an addiction where you just always have to build this one thing more, delaying eating, sleep, etc.

For usual work I would maybe only consider it if I was paid 4x the usual hourly rate for it.

[orf]

You worked 16 hours a day for 7 days? I doubt that - you would be getting only 3-4 hours sleep max?

[bicx]

Don’t really understand the deniers here. I’ve also worked through weeks of literally waking up and building software until time to go to bed, 7 days a week. It is definitely possible, but it destroys you mentally. It was never the expectation that it would be the norm, so my wife was supportive.

[kuchenbecker]

I got about 5-6 hours of sleep, and meals were 10 minutes. Basically most waking hours for a week.

1 week of that is not that big a deal as long as it's not expected.

[theGeatZhopa]

My father works partly 18h a day for several weeks only with breaks for fast eating and 3h sleeping. It's not like that he enjoys it much. But as a self-employed you have to work that much if you want to keep your customers (delivery date is in the quote, so you have to deliver). He has done that for the last 40 years haha since I know him never had been different.

I'm the same, I like to work.