Tech jobs - grass is not always greener

With the AWS outage going on right now, been hearing stories from friends working in tech saying that their already 60-70 hour weeks are about to be 70-80 hour weeks. There’s a lot of software engineers posting day in the life TikToks but the grass is not always greener, lots of tech jobs also involve 60-70+ hour weeks, especially on the engineering side 

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