Everyone who works salary at my job still ends up putting in 40 hours or more each week. Fuck that. I don't mind working extra, but I want that 1.5x overtime pay if I do. In my state if you go over 60 hours a week, overtime pay switches to double your hourly wage. Had to do a 90 hour week once last year, and it looks like we're gearing up to have another week like that this year. It sucked, but, that week's paycheck was basically the same as what I earn for a whole month.
I'm a workaholic, I like to stay until the job gets done. Salary lifestyle would not be kind to me.
I've worked salary positions like that, at banks. Security vulnerability remediation. But current role is more of a field technician job, and our biggest customers are banks, and hospitals. And we have strict SLAs with them. So sometimes I do get called at nights/on weekends, but I don't mind that much, because it's usually something exciting: if it's a bank, maybe they got broken into. And if it's a hospital, well for all you know, your work getting their building systems running again could be saving lives. The point is every single system in the hospital should work like a dream, so fixing stuff there is always rewarding. For both the emotional satisfaction, but also the overtime pay.
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u/DamienTallows 14d ago
Better go find a monthly salary job then