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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a good day I work for perhaps two hours.  The rest of the time I monitor the interwebs, go for coffee or a walk. Sometimes I nap in my office with the door closed.  I make around 200K. And I get the top performance mark.

I feel absolutely no guilt. After a while people tend to get paid according to their productivity.  If I worked four times as hard I should be on $800K. But I don't need any more money.

I don't understand this work ethic thing.  Why should working hard be preferable to being more relaxed and enjoying life?  All this "the bosses know who you are" thing is bullshit too.  Good bosses judge you purely by your results, and won't care how much time you spend on DCUM.[/quote]

Your salary is much higher than mine, so that's great that you make such a high salary and still have a lot of free time. But regarding the work ethic thing, I don't understand questions like that. Enjoying life for me means being committed to a career I love (as well obviously, as enjoying my family and having time to relax). I would be miserable just working for a paycheck, though your paycheck is nice :)

Honestly, I don't believe you aren't at least around people who are driven, thrive on challenging themselves and growing, and accomplishing more and more every year. There are plenty of us out there, and we feel lucky, I can tell you. And I don't mean breaking your back to work 80 hours because I think that's bad for people's health and I'm a leave-work-at-5:00ish-and-shutdown-for-the-night kind of mom, so it's not like I work unreasonable hours. But the goal for me is not soley to "relax." I'm in my 30s. I'm not ready to retire and take up knitting. I need more balance than that and working two hours a day wouldn't give me that.[/quote]

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