The reality is that working at a place like that or a FAANG for just a few years sets you up for a great career no matter what happens. So even if you get fired after a few years you are still better off.
It's good to have coworkers who can think rationally and make decisions this way, too. It's a virtuous cycle.
Drift? I think you mean Sprint.
When someone makes $500k+, what does "unpaid overtime" even mean?
It means shit work/life balance, thus missing on a lot of people that would want to have it and results in worse productivity (people need time off or they break).
Solution: take a job that doesn't pay $500k.
I hate this saying and rarely say it, but "you can't have your cake and eat it too"
No one should take a $500k job and expect the culture to be 9-5, clock in clock out.
It takes most people 10+ years to earn $500k (often still working their asses off overtime). $500k is a shit ton of money.
In fact, it will make it worse, because you’ll keep telling yourself to hold on for the money while your mental health exponentially deteriorates.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in... https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/burnout-prevention...
People get addicted to the dopamine hits of getting things done and when they hit a wall, enter a vicious cycle of depressive withdrawal. Recovering from burnout by taking a break is simply resetting that dopamine addiction. Just a personal theory.
If you work in a high paced environment with competent colleagues, management and tooling, you can just keep rolling with the punches and never hit the wall.
A lot of people at hedge funds like having a baseline level of good stress in their lives. It's only when the stress starts to make you feel insecure that it creates problems.
I worked at one of these firms for a while, and my "burnout" point came when I realized I wasn't actually getting rewarded for my extra contributions to the company (my bonuses were going up by a small amount each quarter, no matter what).
Fingers crossed white collar jobs are on the verge of being AI’d away.
Real logistics information should be made public and democratically planned online across the globe in an organized way, not micro managed by elites who spend a lot getting us to memorize and recite that they own imaginary things.