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Originally Posted by rcooled

How was your business conducted 15 years ago...did people in your profession work 24/7?

Yes, but you can't apply how things were done 15 years ago, to how things are done today. I was interviewing a guy once for a position as a network engineer. We were talking to him about how he worked under pressure. At some point he said something like "10 years ago this company did business just fine without email." The implication being that if they got their work done without it before, they could still do it now. It doesn't work that way. Years ago, things weren't as global, years ago, lots of jobs had pension and retirement, years ago, there was no email, no cell phones, no electricity, no indoor plumbing. Just because people managed without at some point in the past, does not mean that you could turn it all off today.

The world has changed and certain things are expected. If you try to go back in time to a simpler time, you'd probably have to lose a lot of the modern advantages while you gave up some of the encumberances.