I've actually never worked this hard, for this long, in my life. It's been months and months of grueling physical and mental labor, though, and not "working out" or "sports" or "dieting" or "studying", so it gets me no street cred.

Work has gone completely out of style, as a self-improvement effort. It's all about doing things in order to look hot or cool, rather than doing things because they just need to get done.