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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is about the best way to allocate your work hours, so you don't have to work around the clock. I recently got a letter from a before breakfast listener

who had listened to the Split Shift episode.

That episode looked at strategies for preserving family

and personal time

if you needed to work long hours.

This listener wondered about the right length for a work week.

She worked her 40 hours, she wrote, which is a normal full-time job, but she was hearing on this podcast of people wanting to work 50 or 60-hour

weeks. She wondered if this was common, and if working long hours was necessary for success.

This listener noted that she was protective of her personal life

and didn't want to work at night or weekends but she wondered if those barriers

made her seem like a bad worker. Well as someone who works about 40 hours a week as my long-term average, I certainly hope

that doesn't make us seem like bad workers.

I do think it's possible to do a lot in 40 hours a week.

The key is being very strategic. That's because success isn't

about just doing the work in front of you. You have to build your skills. You have to

dream up future projects. You have to build your career capital.

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