You said it, overseas 12 hour days are not easy but a breeze compared to the same in this SH.
45 to 60 minutes commute is a short one these days. I just spent 1.5 hours getting from one office to another. I can’t count the number of times I used to drive home just to go to bed for a bit and wondered why I left work at all. Not doing it anymore.
You have one bucket for money and one bucket for crap. When either one gets full you go home. I used to think that the money bucket had to be close to full.... it doesn’t. Everything is relative.
overseas 12 hour days are not easy
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For me the hours were not bad. We lived on site, 5 minutes maybe to walk to the office, 10 minutes to walk to the plant gate.
Somebody else cleaned, cooked, washed our clothes, did the truck maintenance, etc.
The problem was 60 miles from the nearest paved road, and probably 100 miles to the nearest flush toilet. I was in Yemen on the south side of the Rub’ al Khali (empty quarter) a place so barren that until they found oil, the countries on either side really didn’t care where the border was claimed to be, just somewhere inside that mess of nothing.