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Comment by jawngee | Hacker News Reader

That just sucks for you. I am not you.

10-14 hours a day is the norm and I still get in the gym, dinner with the wife, vigorous sex, a few games of vain glory and other facets of "normal life".

I also take weeks off at a time because I mostly work for myself. In fact, I've been traveling for the last 4 years (I moved to Vietnam from NYC about a year ago).

So, it might suck for you, but I would hardly say my life sucks because I work so much. Mostly because it isn't really work to me, but mostly because at 41 I know what balance works for me.

But thanks for the concern.

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I have this image of you, in a dining room with a mirrored wall, having vigorous sex with your wife while she is eating a sensible dinner - trying to safely navigate a forkful of mixed greens. You are looking at yourself in the mirror and flexing interspersed with loud beckonings of "Am I VIGOROUS?! YES I AM! GETTING SHIT DONE!"

You get done, smack your own butt playfully, and walk out with your plates saying, "I have to get some other normal shit done. Love you!... and you too wife!"

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with you or your lifestyle... but when you awkwardly present the style of your sex life as part and parcel to normal living, it underlines that you are a bit detached from social norms, thus normal life.

BBC interviews people on the street... BBC: So how are you getting on with life these days? Person: Ahhh... well, it's mostly normal day to day stuff. Kids, pub, job, vigorous sex, groceries, some football or cricket when I can. Just normal all around.

Sorry, I just reread that and I didn't mean to come off like a dick. I'm just saying, I've found the balance that works for me and that work is not really work to me. I do get the normal things in, though sometimes at an accelerated pace. And I don't do the 14 hours every single day, but 10-12 hours is probably more the norm.

I actually think something like this might be my ideal -- spurts of intense work, followed by several weeks of not working at all. This is what I tended to do on personal projects when I was younger. I think this could be a quite healthy, long-term sustainable way to arrange work.

I take it that you don't sleep?

I've had many 14 hours days that were awesome, many of them included work. I agree, just because you don't like your "work" doesn't mean you should judge me for enjoying my "work". LOL

> I moved to Vietnam from NYC

OT but why did you move and how is Vietnam? Are you from Vietnam?

Just wondering how it is to live there.

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