That makes you an extreme outlier. Lots of research has been done on sleep requirements/sleep deprivation and the outlook for people who get that kind of sleep is not good.
Take your outside number of 100 hours a week and that doesn’t leave much time for anything else. Come on, there are only 24 hours in a day no matter who you are, and surely you have to admit that for the average person (probably even for many outliers), working 14 hours or more a day 7 days a week (or 20 hours a day five days a week) is asking for trouble in the realm of health, physical fitness, and relationships. That’s why some of these types of careers are rife with substance abuse, mental health struggles like anxiety and depression, and relationship trouble. “Laugh out loud” if you will, but the damage that the schedule you present does for most mortals is significant and not sustainable for most.
Exactly. It sounds great to say “we all have choices,” but our society seems to be imposing these kinds of schedules on more and more people in more and more and more industries to get out of hiring more people to make the hours more “sane.” Yes, I said that word again. Americans have been noted to work longer hours, survive on less and less sleep, and take far less vacation time (some would call it “mental health days”) than anyone else on the planet. I’m seeing this in my industry (healthcare) with mandatory overtime, purposely insufficient staffing-therefore higher and higher nurse to patient ratio-and thus, burnout and a higher than average substance abuse rate. This isn’t going in a good direction.