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- Aug 18, 2020
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I know these are two different questions. One is rather normative and the other one rather technical. I had this question in mind when I heared Elon Musk complaints he has a 120 hour work week currently. He says the only things he does are working and sleeping. Almost nothing else. I did the math and if his statement is true he works on average approximately 17 hours per day.
Maybe Elon should spend less time on Twitter I mean he basically just fuels the destruction of this once very popular company. Maybe it shows that decisions should be thought-through. He would have way less stress and probably way more money if he just did not flex to his billionaire friends to buy the platform.
But maybe this is off-topic.
I was a severe workaholic once. It was extremely self-destructive. Though it also was fueled by mania and I learned a lot of unhealthy patterns of behavior from child abuse. I don't know which my record of working was. I know some months prior to my first psychosis I studied a full night during summer holidays. Which was completely insane. Studying was a way for me to cope with suicidality. I also started to watch gore. I am glad I have stopped the latter one.
I am still studying a lot also because of OCD related to that issues. Though I found a dosage which it not extremely unhealthy for me. I always search for a compromise between health and OCD. Giving me a time limit helped a lot. It forced me to focus on essential stuff to do. Not wanting to impress professors or useless shit like that.
I think my stupid mistake was I barely slept. I had like 4-6 hours sleep usually. Longterm this destroys most people. But I don't blame myself too much. I was a stupid and naive teenager in a mixed bipolar episode. Most other people would have probably started to take hard drugs.
Nowadays I am overburdened by a 40 hours work week. But I am a mental wreck. It is hard to compare because regular jobs feel completely different to me compared to studying. This is why I might have to get a job like being a ghost writer for lazy students. Lol. These are at least naive dreams of mine which shall comfort me when I think about the inevitable future I am heading to. I think it is way more likely I kill myself in the next years than getting a stable income. I wish AI would do the jobs of us and we could get a universal basic income. But many people told me this is very naive. And they might be right.
I think I am unable to do most jobs. But I am uncertain whether I can do absolutely no job. The problem is you need certain degrees to do certain jobs and I am too fragile for a PhD for example. So I am doomed.
My lefty friends are all against performance pressure and fuck the system alikes. Their opinions spilled on me. However without the 1-5% of people with insane workload our societies would be way poorer.
I am not sure what the maximum is a person can work. Probably everyone has a limit and if this is passed they becomeill/have a breakdown. Some get a heartattack, some a stroke, some become mentally ill. Or karoshi happens for people who love Japan not a new information. There are insane schedules of mangaka (manga authors). I think some of them are probably fake because the workload cannot be done by human beings. Moreover I have to say when the workload is too much and you don't take breaks you often don't work efficiently anyway.
Maybe Elon should spend less time on Twitter I mean he basically just fuels the destruction of this once very popular company. Maybe it shows that decisions should be thought-through. He would have way less stress and probably way more money if he just did not flex to his billionaire friends to buy the platform.
But maybe this is off-topic.
I was a severe workaholic once. It was extremely self-destructive. Though it also was fueled by mania and I learned a lot of unhealthy patterns of behavior from child abuse. I don't know which my record of working was. I know some months prior to my first psychosis I studied a full night during summer holidays. Which was completely insane. Studying was a way for me to cope with suicidality. I also started to watch gore. I am glad I have stopped the latter one.
I am still studying a lot also because of OCD related to that issues. Though I found a dosage which it not extremely unhealthy for me. I always search for a compromise between health and OCD. Giving me a time limit helped a lot. It forced me to focus on essential stuff to do. Not wanting to impress professors or useless shit like that.
I think my stupid mistake was I barely slept. I had like 4-6 hours sleep usually. Longterm this destroys most people. But I don't blame myself too much. I was a stupid and naive teenager in a mixed bipolar episode. Most other people would have probably started to take hard drugs.
Nowadays I am overburdened by a 40 hours work week. But I am a mental wreck. It is hard to compare because regular jobs feel completely different to me compared to studying. This is why I might have to get a job like being a ghost writer for lazy students. Lol. These are at least naive dreams of mine which shall comfort me when I think about the inevitable future I am heading to. I think it is way more likely I kill myself in the next years than getting a stable income. I wish AI would do the jobs of us and we could get a universal basic income. But many people told me this is very naive. And they might be right.
I think I am unable to do most jobs. But I am uncertain whether I can do absolutely no job. The problem is you need certain degrees to do certain jobs and I am too fragile for a PhD for example. So I am doomed.
My lefty friends are all against performance pressure and fuck the system alikes. Their opinions spilled on me. However without the 1-5% of people with insane workload our societies would be way poorer.
I am not sure what the maximum is a person can work. Probably everyone has a limit and if this is passed they becomeill/have a breakdown. Some get a heartattack, some a stroke, some become mentally ill. Or karoshi happens for people who love Japan not a new information. There are insane schedules of mangaka (manga authors). I think some of them are probably fake because the workload cannot be done by human beings. Moreover I have to say when the workload is too much and you don't take breaks you often don't work efficiently anyway.
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