Crazy Phil Laak story with Pics

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Maybe you were talking about lackies or something ...

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What, are you saying that there's *nobody* working in financial services with a heroin habit?

I think you'll find you're wrong.

See this, for example.

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How do you define heroin habit ? Popping oxys is not anything like mainlining junk. There are very few successful regular-working-hours people in the world who mainline junk on a regular basis. Sure, there are geniuses in music, acting, art, etc. who pull it off. But a job where you have to get up early every morning and perform for long hours consistently over years ? Not a chance.

That's article is full of media hype. 100 hour weeks ? That's very very rare. That's 16 hrs/day M-F, and then 10 hrs each on Sat Sun. Almost no one can sustain that pace for long. I personally only know one person who ever sustained 16 hrs/day for multiple years, now a partner at McKinsey, and those hours were when he was an associate. As soon as he made partner he dropped way way down, 60 hrs/week or less. Plus his 100 hour weeks included a great deal of travel time (although he might have been working).