Originally Posted by Unregistered

there's only so many hours a day, if you need 8 hours for your current job, and several hours for meal/commute/shower, the only time left you have to take from is your sleep or weekends. it's the harsh truth but it's the reason why people start leaving the firm in droves once they're senior. the alternative is do less than 8 hours for your current job and squeeze in the follow up work at daytime. you'll have trouble meeting your current job deadlines though. the real solution is to hire more people and stop making them carry so many jobs at once but you won't see that happen in your lifetime.