Americans are often stereotyped as workaholics or often 'busy' with work. To what extent is this true?

Depends how high up you rise in a company, once you start making >$120k/year or more you become married to it, everything revolves around work and you work 65-75 hours a week.

My wife rose up to a senior position at a big firm but was kept so busy she couldn't even take vacation off, too many obligations/deadlines across many accounts at the company. And she could only roll over 5 unused days per year so she ended up just losing the rest, every year. But she rapidly was promoted each year and stayed for 14 years.

When we'd fly back east for xmas or try to go to a wedding I'd always go for 4-5 days and she'd have to fly in and out the day of or go back the morning after.

We got burned out and quit, moved out of the city to slow down.

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