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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not talking about a 10-12 hour corporate day, but 14+ day after day? Seriously, unless you are solving world hunger, what exactly are you getting out of it? Like the guy at Deloitte my boss salivates about because he supposedly works 100 hours/week. To me he looks like a walking corpse but the boss thinks he is a human marvel.

Were they not able to please their dad? Hate their family? Have no family so work is their social life? I don't get the attraction.[/quote]

Because some of us are at non-profits and the work needs to be done or the clients don't get the services they need.  Those services might be food, so if someone doesn't do it, kids don't eat.  Or it might be mental health, and if someone doesn't do it, others don't get their meds/have a bedroom to sleep in or a roof over their head.

And, some of us really do care about the mission and the people we serve.  The rest of you are just slackers[/quote]

Sorry, I'm not helping someone else (through my white collar job) at the expense of my own health/sanity.  You can't continue to help others if you let yourself go.  Doctors, military, first responders, etc... I totally get being mission driven.  But you can only keep that up for so long, and as you get more senior in those roles, you're much more valuable as a teacher/mentor to younger people in the same profession.[/quote]

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