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by putnambr 1048 days ago
Four hours of knowledge work a day is a lot?

Maybe I'm uniquely on a path to burnout, but I put in at least 6 hours of what I would call hard knowledge work per day as a SWE. Throw on 1-3 hours of collaboration and an hour of truly useless meetings and I'm at a 45+ hr week.

Factor in commute time, via bike so counts towards exercise minutes, and I'm working 50 hr weeks + 24/7 15 minute SLA on-call once every other month.

It's unfathomable to me that this isn't the average experience, and that anyone would get paid more than $120k doing any less.