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BetrayedTangy posted...

I'd rather work 60 hours a week making less and doing something I love than doing what I am now.

Oooor you can work 40 hours a week doing the thing you love, because a job based on passion is still a job that deserves the same standards everyone else gets.

Accepting anything different is allowing yourself to be exploited by a system that doesn't give two shits about you. Your passion is a commodity for a board of directors to justify paying you less and overworking you. It'll only get worse as time goes on - 60 hours will become 80 will become 100. By the end of it you'll wonder why you ever loved doing this in the first place, your passion just another resource used to fuel the machine, and once its been wrung dry and you quit, some other starry-eyed newbie will take your place.

"I'm okay with working more because X" is an extremely dangerous slippery slope that should ALWAYS be heavily criticized. The end result of corporations taking advantage of passion and good will is Japan, which is going to collapse in a few decades because no one has time to have kids.

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