What kind of whacked out industry does that? Aside from emergency medicine, only a fool would sign up for a job like with those hours. As important as work is, making it the focus of one's existence is just plain sick. Slavery was banned 140 years ago.
"What kind of whacked out industry does that? Aside from emergency medicine, only a fool would sign up for a job like with those hours. As important as work is, making it the focus of one's existence is just plain sick. Slavery was banned 140 years ago."
You think anyone is stupid enough to sign up for hours like that? Get a clue. It's called being "a salaried employee". And they never tell you they expect that kind of committment up front, you know the job will probably require some extra hours but you never think it will get to that level, it just creeps up on you.
People have mortgages, insurance, braces for kid's teeth, etc., to pay for. Then the job market shrinks due to global competition and outsourcing and they take whatever job they can find.
Then the management signs up for some impossible deadline and the next thing you know your management and all your co-workers are working impossible hours and expecting it out of you, too (B.T.D.T., got the T-shirt). Sure you can quit but not until you find another job, so you are stuck for awhile.
It's not really slavery, it's more like Indentured Servanthood. You are allowing them to do it to you.
80 hour weeks are typical for most graduate professions during the first few years. Some entry level lawyers (called associates) are even called upon to put in in excess of 80 hours. The salaried world is vastly different from the hourly world. Blue collar folks vastly overestimate how easy their white collar counterparts have it.