Hi Guys,

After working in several informatics company, I am fascinated sometimes how CEO's can handle their job and keep a balanced life.

My CEO gets up daily at 5am does cardio four times a week and he shows up daily at 7 am. He spent many hours working and he keeps a good condition.

You may share about your CEO, Boss,... unless you are the boss yourself...

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/things...4-11?op=1?r=US

Several joke discussions. At one former place they felt that one of the VP's was a robot. Just younger guys making jokes, but they brought forth tons of empirical evidence. Never seen him in the bathroom, never seen him eat, never seen him arrive nor leave he was always in earliest and out latest, and even on weekends they'd occasionally come in and he'd be there.

On the other side, I reflected that senior execs do have some level of resistance to hunger and nature's call because "I" can't sit in 5+ hours of meetings all morning without a break for mind nor body, but they can and when the break is for "lunch" they actually stand outside the conference room and talk to each other for the whole hour and when us lowers re-enter, there's another 4-5 hour session. It's rare that I've participated in meetings where the heavies are, but that was classical experience for some of them. My boss was one of the ones who randomly left at times to get coffee or use the restroom and one time I joked that he didn't have what it takes to be with the big boys and covered that line of reasoning. His response was "Yeah! No kidding! Name1, and Name2 haven't LEFT the room ALL DAY!"

On the other side of the coin, actually CEOs who I've met clearly have families, you meet them, the person their self has charisma and it's obvious. Almost like a politician, but really more direct and seemingly more honest. The ones I have met and gotten to know have normal lives, history which they actually talk about, they are aware of the flow of the business local to their company and globally in the world. They appreciate professional sports, understand political upheaval times, natural disasters, localized tragedies, and local good news stories. In short, as normal as anyone, but in an influential job. If I knew their exact secrets I might be one myself. Instead another thought is that success follows success. I have a good track record with things I've worked with. Just not one of them is starting and heading a successful corporation. But if you have that, then you get a chance at the next one, and so on and so on. No matter whether you be Type A personality or other, people see and realize that you got it done successfully and your pedigree helps speak for you as well.

Final thinking is that most of them can focus on the needed details of an issue and make a decision. Probably a good quality in a CEO anyways.

It may sound funny for me to say that "the CEO/CTO, actually, is a guy/gal very much like yourself!"

The only difference between his/her job, and yours, is that he/she, as a Corporate Officer, can be sued, personally, by anyone(!) who has a grievance with the corporation.

So ... this person is actually grappling with "the requirements and the stresses of his/her job," exactly as you are. The difference being that the stresses inherent with his/her position are vastly greater than yours!

"Yeah, yeah, he/she gets paid a lot more." But, "there's a reason for that."

As Tommy Lee Jones' character quipped in Men In Black: ... "try it."

I've known a couple who work 12+ hours a day 7 days a week and have no life outside of work. But then they retire at 40 and spend the second half of their life golfing.

I've seen many people rich and poor work long hard hours. I've seen some people who didn't work very much and make out like a bandit.

What you may be noting is a type A person I'd think. I worked at a big computer company where people had multiple advanced degrees and kept fit and had a home life. Not sure how when they worked so many hours.

I know IT that worked 12-14 hours a day and so on. They worked simply too much, got several burn-out. A big problem today, -a least in EU.

Maybe working for Google: is there lower rates of burn-out issues?

There are all kinds of people who work 12+ hours. Some salary, some hourly. At least the hourly benefit in some way, providing they can and providing they actually get compensation worthy. In many cases that's economics and they have too.

Either case, whether it be a startup company or a large company, there can be salaried persons working well in excess of 40 hours on a regular basis and they do not always end up being rewarded.

As jefro points out, some work not at all and reap in great benefits, some work tirelessly and see next to no benefit, but they still persist and doing their work.

I would dought it, working long hours seem to be the norm. I got out of being a server admin and into cyber security. There are still times of long hours but then other times where they are not so long.