I was told by a senior once that 'we worked 80 hours a week back in my day, and weekends too. Cool! Does not mean we should still be doing it now. Why do you think we cling so tightly to outdated practices?

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I don't think they meant we should still be holding onto that practice. Probably just passing along a "nifty" fact from the past.

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Yeah, that’s what I thought too, more of a fun historical tidbit than an actual suggestion to keep doing it.

I've heard things like that and I just shrug them off. It's like hearing my grandmother's stories about how terrible things were way back when. I don't doubt it, but it doesn't have a lot of relevance to life today. We still just have to do the work in front of us.

Totally get that! It’s interesting to hear, but at the end of the day, it’s all about what’s in front of us now.

I can’t imagine working more than 40 hours a week even in this day and age. Working 80 hours a week seems crazy but I know some people that do it (mainly men). A lot of us online with the outdated practices because that’s what they told us to do in the “system” to work until you retire.

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