and some of these people beat their chests that they only work 40 hours and it makes them smarter or more virtuous than others.

There are 168 hours in a week. 63 hours for sleep and personal hygiene. That leaves 105 hours. If people work 40 hours, what do they do with the other 65?

Example: Do they go out to lunch every day, or do they work through lunch? There are five hours every week that could have been spent in more productive time. If you need to work more, working through lunch changes it from 40-45 with NO impact on your family. I know some guys that work 60 plus hours and they are amazing fathers and husbands - they certainly don't have time for BYU sports and typing on an internet chat board like CB.

If you go to bed early, start work early, you can easily work 50-55 hours a week and be home in time for dinner every night. Once you get past 55 hours, I think it can easily impinge on your family time...or in most cases, your TV time...However, that is just my personal experience and others may be able to work more and not have it impact family time as much.

When you start with 65 hours to do anthing, even working 55 hours a week and spending 10 hours on church stuff, that leaves 40 hours every week to do ANYTHING. 40 hours EVERY week. Do people really think that staying up late watching TV, or reading or whatever personal you do with those extra 65 hours a week, as long as it isn't working, it makes you a better father and husband? What matters is how do you spend all of that time, not 10 or 20 or 30 (working)...all of the 65 hours a week.

Everyone should ask themselves, what are you doing with your 40-65 hours a week, not opining that anyone that works more than 40 hours a week is a fool. The only way to determine who is the fool is how they spend all of their time, not some judgement on how 10-20 hours a week out of the 65 available for almost anything is spent.

One other thing before I get off my soapbox. My own father would qualify as a workaholic. He had his own business and worked at least six days a week. His father was a farmer and worked a lot more than that. I am so thankful that my dad taught me how to work, and I don't feel cheated about my dad working at all. I think a lot of it is that I didn't have some whiney mom and I never doubted that my dad loved me more than his work. I see so many lazy people that start whining as soon as they have to do something hard. I am even more grateful that my kids know how to work. Nothing makes me prouder than when I see my girls at a service project outworking every single kid and half the adults.

What do you do with your 40-65 hours every week?