[chipgap98]

Quality of life is one big reason not to work 55 hours a week. Even for additional compensation, I wouldn't want to be stuck at my job for all that additional time.

Also overtime does not mean that you can just stay late at work whenever you want and bill your employer. Overtime is for when the company tells an an employee that the employee has to stay late to finish an assignment. Then the employee is compensated for staying late, rather than being told they have to stay late and having to just deal with it.