Sounds like someone needs some more tasks for their to do list. I have to abandon about half of the tasks I am meant to do, for lack of time. I can send you some of them to fill that eight hours.
Who here actually works a 40-hour week? HN isn't a bunch of union factory workers punching timecards each day. I'd bet 60 is more common than 40.
Sure, if there is a corresponding pay increase for those tasks.
I would consider whether your employer is trying to normalize 60 hours to exploit you, rather than it actually reflecting reality.
[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#work-hours-wo...
> Old Life: Attorney
All the lawyers I know are basically married to their jobs. I think workaholism is just part of law culture
Tech, not as much. There are certainly unicorns that probably became billionaires after burning years of midnight oil, but many tech ventures fail, regardless of the experience involved. There is always a need for a lawyer, meanwhile.
I wouldn't do all that overtime on a gamble, and I argue you don't even need to do overtime to win such a gamble in tech.
Uhh, I did? First job I had a total of 5 weeks of OT. 2nd job never had to work above 8 hours a day, de facto nor de jure. I even had a 4 day experiment for 4 months there and it was lovely. Third job, no overtime.
Did I do some extra hours here and there off the clock? Sure. Especially with wfh I can get fixated and want to spend a bit of time getting something compileable. But outside of that one OT period listed above, I never worked above 50 hours.