Not quite. The deal here isn't between working 100-hour weeks, or working 10-hour weeks. It's about working crazy-overtime, or working the regular 40-hour weeks like a human being. Under regular conditions 40-hours in a 5-day week is 8 hours a day. If you're trying to break in you gotta figure that people already in the…
I should have clarified, as no job is going to up-front tell you, "By the way, we're expecting you to work 60 hours a week, but we'll pay you for 40." I was thinking more about once you're at a job, and the management is mistakenly impressed by all the extra hours, and reward that with promotions (which in turn will make…
No, just don't be pushed around. Sometimes you'll need to work some overtime to get something out of the door, and it's accepted that if you're salary then you won't be paid for that extra time, but if you work at a good place and don't let anybody hold that production bar over your head, then you'll be fine. The studio I…