What can I do to survive the grind?
I’m working 16 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week. I can’t go on like this. What can I do to survive the grind?
answer:
Stop whining, you wimp. You think people make big coin by clocking in a puny 10-hour day? I assure you, they don’t. The big earners relentlessly drive themselves, thinking about the business 23/7— leaving 1 hour for deep REM sleep, and even then they’re dreaming about work. They champ at the bit to bolt out of the house in the morning and hit the beaches with all the ammo they’ve got. Pain? Exhaustion? Spiritual malaise? Forget about it. If you’re already in the top 1 percent of wage slaves in your company, go buy yourself a big-ass TV and suck it up. If, on the other hand, you’re killing yourself for middling money while others cash in stock options and purchase their little slab of lake front heaven, then I can sympathize … but only a little. Here’s a rule of thumb: If you’re not earning 5 percent of what your CEO is making
(including his bonus), you shouldn’t mortgage your soul and your health for the company store. Cut back your hours to merely insane, and when they bitch to you about it, tell them what I just told you.
