50-55 hours a week. My point was that you can still have plenty of quality time with your family, you can still cuddle your 1 year old toddler and all of the other things implied in the other thread you can't do if you work more than 40. More importantly, young people with decisions to make about careers don't have to throw it all away thinking that working more than 40 hours a week destroys your life.

Guilt, the gift that keeps giving...part of why people defend their tv time so strongly too is my guess.

Generally speaking, it is very difficult to have an executive job and never work more than 40 hours a week. Conversely, you can be an executive without regularly working 80 plus hours a week, although there will be times you have to once in a while. My experience is most people work less than they think. CB time, phone time, etc., waste a lot of time at work.

I am OK with people that decide 40 hours is good, I only reject their premise that people who work more have no quality of life and sacrifice their life away chasing money. There are a lot of hours every week and I think if people evaluated their hours, they would find they are probably wasting a lot of them (again, suggesting a self evaluation, not my evaluation).