Bad formatting aside, this is an important insight. When I first started working at my current job, a young consulting firm, we took a client that nearly killed me for about a solid month. The thing is, we hadn't even launched their product, a test taking app, to the general public yet. There was always an air of urgency, of "if we don't get this feature done RIGHT NOW there will be trouble." I've since learned that there really wasn't as much trouble as I thought, since we didn't even have users yet, and if the feature had to be put on hold for 3 hours to spend time in the evening with my family, the world was not at all going to end.

I think I'm getting better at work/life balance, but when I first started, it was nonexistent. Makes for an unpleasant lifestyle.