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As someone who's worked 60-80 hours regularly as a programmer in the past, come closer to agreeing with HotDogButts than not on a lot of things. It really is a field where you're paid well with an understanding that you'll work long hours when needed-- even making it explicit during interviews in many cases. It's also a field where you feasibly can be productive that long without completely imploding, and I would argue in fact it's optimal for a lot of people to work longer days because you can really hit breakthroughs where you get a lot of stuff done at once and just clocking out right at 8 hours during those times is going to waste so much potential productivity if you're approaching it with the mindset of always work 40 hour weeks and no more, cause while you can restart tomorrow there's a reset period to get back in the groove, particularly if you're working with a nuanced problem. You could probably take one single 11 hour day to do the work of two 8 hour days with certain things, depending on the circumstances.

100 hours is well beyond a point where overtime is even actually useful though. People even claiming to work that many are probably outright wasting dozens of hours doing literally nothing because they're braindead from fatigue and working a job where being able to think is pretty damn important. It's also nothing that would ever be planned for and is indicative of a comedy of time mismanagement than anything to be proud of. You'd rather just build up to that point with a stream of 60 hour weeks instead. 60 hour work week isn't really quite as bad as it sounds. Especially if you're working on the weekend. I mean it does suck in the sense that you lose your social life that week but you're (at least potentially) paid well and as long as literally every week isn't 60 you'll value that money for making the most of your weekends where you actually can be social.

On the general point though I feel like most people complaining about it are the moral outrage squad who don't really know what they're talking about having never worked in it, or entitled people in the field who aren't very good at maintaining the focus required for to do well at their job or simply don't properly value the money they're making.
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