I completely agree with you.In my case my day starts at 6 and ends at 12.00(including 4 hrs travel) as I me and my spouse also have to look after the kid when we get back from work. However "only few bucks of money" is not a correct statement.what else could we do? get a lesser paying and less stressful job? I dont believe there is such a thing now-a-days.and living in a costly city like bombay we need all the money we can make.There is childrens education,parents illness,insurance policies,investments,house, car etc to be planned.These things may look materialistic but the fact is we need them, if not now then in the future.A commonly occurring operation like bye-pass needs at least 3.5L, where do we get that kind of money? So the basic funda is - either slog in whole life and lead a stressfull but comfortable life, or be relaxed all your life and dont provide adequately for your parents,kids,spouse (I doubt you would be relaxed even in this case!) I dont think people living in metros have a choice.If you dont do the job then somebody else will.So keep on slogging stressfully ever after