I do not teach working long hours; I preach for professionals to focus on how to earn more per hour, at personal level. In Tekedia Mini-MBA, in our Personal Economy module, I explain to young people that building enduring wealth does not come by working all the time, rather, by optimizing how to make more per hour.
As a cybersecurity person, can another certificate add $15 per hour to your paycheck? As a healthcare professional, would a nursing license give you extra $30 per hour?
But if you just focus on working all the hours in the day, it will become like being unborn tomorrow, but perished yesterday!
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I am not of the opinion that people should be encouraged to work all hours, considering that in most developing parts of the world, youth unemployment is HIGH. We can have two young people work 40 hours and still accomplish the mission, over just one person doing 70 hours (that is a personal decision of course).
I do not believe in super long hours. I consider that as a sign of inefficiency if work-effort is well optimized. As a lead designer, my team members who told me they returned on weekends to finish work consistently, did not make good impressions, when I knew the work assigned to them ought to have been completed within 40 hours in a week. As a supervisor and mentor, I invested efforts to see how they could finish their work without coming to office over the weekend. For one, a little planning was all that he needed.
I sleep early and I wake up fairly within the gaussian normal distribution space for most global citizens of We The People; I consistently improve my tactics and efficiency to get things done on time. Yes, I can contribute a lot but that does not require spending all the hours working!
Personally, I do believe that the world should push and prepare people towards more efficiency over spending all the hours working! You do not need to work 70 hours in a week to be successful or productive, despite what a legendary billionaire posits.
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