IT & Mobile Bods: what is the hardest you have ever worked?

So recently I have been spending inordinate amounts of time working – we are talking a wake-up of 0600hrs, and a finish, the following day (!), at (on average) 0130 hrs. Some of this time I have been spending working on specifically Mobile-related tasks, but all the time in general I have been spending within IT-related tasks.

Like with lots of people, who enter in to silly amounts of working hours, I also twinned very little broken sleep with a  poor diet, and a build-up of stress – until the other day, when my body literally just shut down – I spent 24 hours of a Saturday with a headache, stomach ache, sickness, and light-headedness that meant I couldn’t even walk up the stairs without being out of breath.

Now I am not telling you this to boast, far from it – but really to ask a question of the IntoMobile readership – being tech-savvy, as I know you are, and quite possibly being within an IT industry (or service industry that touches IT), I want to know what is the hardest you have ever worked? And, were there any side-effects?

The Japanese actually have a word for “working yourself to death” – kar?shi . Hopefully no stories will be that serious (!), but I’d love to hear if the hard-working contingent of people out there have gotten to a point where they have thrashed their own health in pursuit of getting something done.

(Please note: staying awake for 3 days straight on a mixture of red bull and skittles, whilst playing a MMRPG does not count!!)

Let us know, what you did, how long for, did it hurt, and what was the result?

[Image, and great related article, via: My Health (Blog)]