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Once worked in a pizza place and did a 112 hour week shift. Totaly burned out.
Worse part about it was: That night ~4am I was getting sloshed at a friends house when I got a phone call: Someone left a pizza in the oven, the firefighters busted the largest street window and sprayed everything inside the store with a fire extinquisher and I had to go in and clean up.
Interesting thing about the Japanese: There remains in the culture that work=war. "Gambate" (dedicate yourself fully) is a parting phrase.
As restrictive and plateaued as their society is, personal debts and recognition of dedication is not easily discarded. Call it "honor", which we seem to lack as a society.
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