If this is what it takes to "make it," I'll pass, thank you very much.

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/02/10/o.saying.no.at.work/index.html?eref=rss_latest">The price of saying no at work</a>

"To get where I am," she said, "I have given up so much. My job has inflicted untold brutality on my marriage. Untold brutality on my life. I will not start saying no and take the hit in my career, too. The price I've paid is already high enough."

"You can't say no until you've earned it, unless, of course, you're willing to pay the price of irrelevancy."

I also read this post about the <a href="http://modite.com/blog/2009/02/10/real-life-disclosures-on-the-myth-of-worklife-balance/">myth of work/life balance</a>