I Tried 12-Hour Work Days Like Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro, and Alex Hormozi. It Didn’t End Well.

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I spent the last year with the daily stress of being terminated as I worked for a company managed like a dysfunctional family.

My colleagues were leaving left and right, either fired or quitting.

By May, my search for a new job had borne no fruit, so I looked for an additional HORECA job under the Belgian “flexi” scheme that enables you to work on the weekend. I applied and became a barista.

My thinking was that this extra job would help me earn more money, improve my Dutch, but also give me work should I lose my main job (un)expectedly. And then, I just really enjoyed being a barista.

That’s how I ended up combining a job, a weekend job, university, Dutch classes, my online food business, and writing.

One Monday in July, I felt exhausted as I collapsed into my bed after a long day.

“Oh, oh, I thought, I am not going to make it”.

I had accepted barista work for the next weekend, which meant I was about to work for twelve days straight, and I was already done on day 1.

I cleared my schedule of anything I hadn’t yet committed to.