> Can you be happy, healthy, and work 60 hour weeks while still loving your job? Yes.

No.

I haven't met a single person who works 60 hours a week and is thrilled about it, outside of those who work for themselves. When you work for yourself, yes, it's definitely possible. That's not what we're talking about.

On top of everything, we're primarily talking about young people. A young person needs to invest a lot more time into their non-work life. Relationships, friends, acquiring property, family, hobbies, sports, etc. I can go on. All of those things are important and require time.

There's a reason you see depression threads pop up here on a constant basis. A healthy work/life balance is important!

It's an easy way to get burned out. If the employee is good enough, he or she should be able to accomplish what they need to in a 40 hour week. If it takes 1.5x as long then they aren't cut out for it, or the employer is over working them. Occasionally it's OK to work more then 40 hours for milestones but every week is ridiculous.

One of the biggest reasons you don't want this as an employer is the employee has no time to grow personally and pursue things on his own time.

Playing with computers is awesome. Coding is awesome. It's always a huge boost to put something new out to the world. It's great.

But you know what else is awesome? Spending time with my wife, gardening, hiking, traveling, biking, eating, exploring, wine, beer, home improvement, etc.

So yeah, I will never come to the office just to hang out with someone...especially on a sunday. But I'll get my work done and help others get their work done and it will be good work. I just won't do it on a sunday.

- Ok, a year and a half ago I worked 43 straight 10+ hour days because I really believed in what I was doing. Chances of me ever doing that again voluntarily? Basically nil. Life's too short and spending so much of it in front of a screen...yuck.

There is a difference between coding on my own vs. coding for company.

I rather work on learning about Minix, Linux Kernel, 3D graphics rendering, compilers, Bioinformatics than messing with some config file because a production server was upgraded from Stack 1.1 to 1.11 over the weekend.

Company's goal is to serve the business no matter how intellectual my co-workers may be or the technology involved. My goal is to learn for the fun of it.