THE TRUTH ABOUT APPLE'S FOXCONN WORKERS: They Want To Work MORE, Not Less

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64. They are short bursts of intense, extended work.

Many college students stay up all night cramming for an exam, then take it the next day w/o sleep. They think they actually do better on the tests that way.

I value sleep. But for some reason I am able to focus and work intensely for extended periods of time. Your doctor did that to get his license. That nurse who attended at any surgery you had...she did that to become an operating room nurse. Medical people in E.R.s work very long hours w/o sleep, or getting a catnap. That's how Bill Gates & the other guy developed Microsoft. A lot of people can just do that, and want to do that. If you're interested in what you're doing, that makes a difference. A lot of lawyers did, and do, that.

It doesn't last for a month or anything. They are, like the OP says, bursts of extended hours during peak times. I not only am able to do it, but I do it fairly well.

One reason I'm able to do it is, I think, because I'm healthy to begin with. My blood work is all normal, no high blood pressure or cholesterol or blood sugar. I also sleep really well. I'm one who falls asleep fairly fast when I go to bed, and I sleep straight through the night & wake up without needing an alarm clock in the morning. I sleep soundly. Not always, but usually.

Part of it is, I'm a type when I have a job to do, and I care about it, and it's important, I totally work on it until it's done. It's just part of my job. I'm not crazy about that aspect of it, but that's the way it is.

One time I had to go to a trial out of town. I woke up before 4 a.m., (I packed my car the night before), and drove several hours there to the courthouse (I was petrified...I'd never been to that town, and I have no sense of direction), but I got there before the trial started, got the court organized, exhibits handed out, blown up exhibits toted in, sat there in trial all day attending to my lawyer, then when trial was over for the day, I had to move all the boxes and blown up exhibits to a room in the courthouse, see if the lawyer needed anything for the next day at trial (she did), and then got to the hotel at maybe 9 that night. 17 hour day maybe? But I didn't have to work all night, so I was fresh by the next morning, after eating dinner & falling right to sleep. Not pleasant. But that's what I do for a living. It's pretty interesting, actually. I enjoy what I do. I could do w/o the long hours, but it's required.