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No, I don't think people work 70 hours because they're successful. I think they work 70 hours out of necessity and others think that makes them successful.

If I were successful then I definitely wouldn't be _working_. Yet here I am working many hours and others claim I am successful.



You're defining "successful" as not having to work.

They define it differently (just as "others" define your "working many hours" as successful.)


Get a different job. If you don't love what you're doing, why do it? I you love doing something, why not get paid for it? People can be working 70 hours a week and enjoying it. Because you associate work with being miserable doesn't mean others do.


> If you don't love what you're doing, why do it? I you love doing something, why not get paid for it?

What I love doing doesn't pay nearly as much as what I don't love doing.




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