I'm not sure what you do, but my experience has been that the young folks are almost always the ones that work the hardest. The older guys all go home right at 5, while the younger ones work overtime (which of course, isn't much on salary). I like to think that it's because their experience has led them to work intelligently with the time they have, and that they've transcended the flawed equation of hours == productivity.
If you're trying to spin my words as against the Puritan work ethic (which is one of the few that advocate what you do), then you're absolutely right: I advocate productivity rather than hard work. If you want to see where the extreme of your work ethic takes you, attend pre-Collegiate classes in Japan or urban China sometime. It isn't pretty, nor is it very productive.
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