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Working 18 hours per day was tough, at the beginning coffee helped a lot. However I started loosing friends and the little free time I had, I spent it drinking, lonely in anonymous pubs, trying to socialise.
Workload increased and stress started to affect me, so I began smoking weed to relax.
To recover and work with renewed energy coffee was not enough anymore, I started with pills, amphetamines, coke, crack. After the biggest deployments I would disappear for days in an opium den.

Work, it's a gateway drug.

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  • 3
    @dudeking ok, I'm exaggerating a bit, stopped in the beer step. but still.
  • 9
    "a bit"
  • 0
    I've worked 16 on occasion, mostly cleaning my own mess, but if I were at a company that expects me to do that? Buh-bye!
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    @iAmNaN well, as member of a one man team, I asked that to myself. The only way to leave myself leads to drugs...
  • 2
    If project management is causing this due to unrealistic deadlines, stall them.
    Everything over 12 hours is murder, and already 4 hours too long to stay healthy on the long run.

    If you are the project management and the customer enforces such deadlines, make the rush expensive :
    Hours 8-10: +50%
    Hours 11-12: +100%
    Hours 13-14: +250%
    Hours 15+ : +1000%
    (Sunday work always +100%)
    Customers tend to rethink whether they are *really* in such a hurry...

    Honestly, don't kill yourself! It's not worth it!
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