Never devote your entire life to work. There should be a balance where your employer gets a part of your time, but you also devote a certain amount of time to yourself. When your employment ends, then no one will remember all those long hours you put into the job. However, you will have all these afterthoughts and memories about the horrible times at work that will stay with you for the rest of your life. There has to be a certain time in the day where you leave and move onto what is going on in your life. There are quite a few ways that you can get this done. Make it known to all of those who report to you that you want everything done as efficiently as possible and that a work-life balance is important for the entire department. Make it known that your general expectation is that everyone do their fair share. Perform tasks at work in a highly organized and efficient manner without ever wasting any time. If you are obviously disorganized, then you should get organized. There are exceptions, in my opinion, to a work-life balance and that is when the employer is willing to give you something to make up for working 70-80 hours a week. If you are making 300k a year, for example, then there seems ample justification to work those types of hours as that is a salary that is about 5-6 times that above the average American. Michigan is not a place where you want to spend the rest of your life. There is more to the world then Michigan. Asia is a fun place especially if you are a single male. There is no better place to be a Bachelor then Asia. You have a gang of women after you at any given time and you choose amongst the females where as in a place like NYC they basically choose you. Travel will be a good thing for you. As for the amount of work, you have to be fast and efficient and make it known to those around you that they should work as fast and efficiently as yourself. After a while, you will develop a certain routine and expertise to handling the work. Remember, usually companies give their managers 1 year to get it together and then, if you dont, they find a way to fire you through "Performance Management" processes. Its not easy to manage a team of people. There are very few people who are born to follow nowadays or are truly engaged. It will probably suck for a while until either the team comes together or you get fired. I say go for it. Opportunity knocks only once and its better to have tried and failed then not tried at all...