New team I'm on has a pretty intense work culture (works several hours extra each day with no OT, lunch at their desks, posting at random times throughout the night, etc).

Does that apply here?

I use my story in this context because it seems like there is a real lunacy amongst people who follow "IT Careers" -- I am responding to the guy calling me a corpo simp, when I am saying there is a difference between being a professional vs being a slave to the machine.
I don't use my experience as a sob story to derive sympathy or to virtue signal, but that being hungry and motivated means that you learn a few things about life and your place in society... work is a big part of that.
But clearly, I am the outlier here. My unhealthy work-life balance, or whatever you think that is... it's funny.
--- people getting all offended by the idea of OT (but seriously, wait until you have an after-hours call about a data breach or systems outage or a change gone wrong and need to restore from backup)---- like you need to rewrite your job description because your environment provisions a new business service. *give me a break*
---- people can't understand why people who have jobs and careers would wake-up in the morning and actually want to go to work... who feel some sort of loyalty or commitment to their position, employers, and/or colleagues. This does not make you a corpo simp.--- but if you don't stand by your company, they certainly won't stand by you. It is that simple.
---- people, for some reason, can't believe that there are folks out there who derive some enjoyment from work... i dunno, that maybe work can be meaningful and fulfilling. Do you need someone to explain the difference between a "job" and a "career"?

Come to /rITCareerQuestions and get a load of people who bitch too much and have zero stake in ownership. Gonna be some stellar portfolios in here.
Let's hope that I'm not your hiring manager.

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