Recognizing this helped me set a better schedule: Now, I work late instead of coming in early, and I can usually pack much more productivity into my day.

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To compensate I would work late into the night and every weekend.

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"I work from early morning to late evening, and I only make so much, " the woman says.

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For example, I once had an employee show up over two hours late to work, breathless and slightly upset.

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My political interest goes even further back to my undergraduate days, with the excitement I felt around student government campaigns that fueled me to work tirelessly through late nights.

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In the late 1970s, I sat down with the mathematical theorist George Oster to work out the principles of caste and the division of labor in the social insects.

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After work, I close that laptop and go home, then inevitably reopen it for a little late-night emailing.

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At first I was also seeing Jeremy, but in late June, straight after finals, he moved to Edinburgh, to work on a Ph.

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