All the tech bros that i know that spend hours on end working are just young and reach burnout like my old ass eventually.

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He's right, folks, you do get burnout eventually and it's fucking horrible.

I had a lot of different wage labour situations, the one which I was pretty comfortable in was a two and a half days work week with roughly 18 hours per week. The compensation was around 25 thousand $ per year (included healthcare and pension of 1100$ monthly after 30 years). The time I could spend on reproductive work, organizing, hobbies, friends and such was worth much more than when I worked 40 hours to get more money.

The job I was most comfortable in was two days every week with home work office (it was about monitoring and keeping a cluster of servers running and having at least one technician at the place at any given point - that is as long as they paid us to be there). I was there on average 7 hours a week, but not every week and did the rest remotely and sometimes with meeting the rest of the crew to watch movies, agitate for strikes and eat and cheap-ish delis. Was good to also introduce models in which we would more ore less democratically decide who would like to work when and how to handle conflicts of interests. The pay wasn't that great - roughly 16k$ per year, however it was also only 15 hours a week and with sleazy contracts.