This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

John is in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hey, John, welcome to the Ramsey Show.

How you doing today, Dave?

Better than I deserve, sir.

What's up in your world?

Dave, where is? I work for my father, and we're in the construction business.

Pretty large company. We've got 40 employees, about the 7 million top line gross.

But anyways, I'm 29 years old. I've been working with them for 10

years now, and I'm working around 60 to 65 hours a week, and I'm wondering, I've talked to him

about scaling back my hours, but he, you know, continues to emphasize, you know, you need to put your time in and you need to work.

And financially, I have all my ducks in a row like you teach.

You know, I've got emergency funds well and well more than what you teach and out of debt.

And I'm just kind of wondering, am I wrong for wanting to drop my hours back

because I have a wife and two kids and just kind of wanting to know your thoughts on that.

Yeah, the only time I work that amount of hours are asked somebody to work that amount of hours

is for a sprint, a short season, to knock something out.

Now, the short season could be for a year.

It could even be for two years, but it's, you know, while we're trying to get something up

and moving, or there's an emergency, and it falls under the heading of, you know, country sayings, but, you know,

make hay while the sun shines, right? And so if you've got to put in 16-hour days, get the hay

out of the field for, the rain kills it, and kills your dad-gum crop, you got to go do that, shut up, you know? And if you, and the other one is get the ox out of the ditch,

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