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Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor
An anonymous reader writes "We've all had to deal with long, tough work weeks, whether it's coming in on the weekend to meet a project deadline, pulling all-nighters to resolve a crisis, or the steady accretion of overtime in a death march. It's fairly common in the tech sector for employees to hold these tough weeks up as points of pride; something good they achieved or survived. But Jeff Archibald writes that this is the wrong way to think of it. 'If you're working 60 hours a week, something has broken down organizationally. You are doing two people's jobs. You aren't telling your boss you're overworked (or maybe he/she doesn't care). You are probably a pinch point, a bottleneck. You are far less productive. You are frantically swimming against the current, just trying to keep your head above water. ... We need to stop being proud of overworking ourselves.'"
3 Miles is walkable/bike-able. $1800 a month for a two bedroom is outrageous, move to flyover country and get a house in a suburb for half that. Kids with colds don't need a doctor, sorry but your little snowflake is going to have to suffer through it just like everyone else. I'm not going to touch on the issues regarding women becoming single mothers after dating dumbasses, I'm sure they were all completely rational and the guy was an deceptive con man with no red flags. Food deserts are horrible, and just like real deserts, only a committed dumbass would live in a desert and complain about the lack of water.
Social Mobility is certainly possible and opportunities abound, however the social structure is absolutely not favored towards changing the status quo.