[roc]

> "Job stability? Reasonable hours? Promotion prospects, without working like a maniac?"

There are plenty of corporate programming jobs with those attributes.

[pugnusferreus]

Still depends on your boss. I used to work for a bank and my head of department dislike people who goes home before 7pm. Our official working hours is 9am - 6pm. I was called into the room once for going home at 6:15pm.

[docgnome]

That would be what you call, a terrible job.