On-call is not the norm, nor to be expected. I've worked over a dozen jobs easily in this industry and not a single one has had an on-call requirement for any a

On-call is not the norm, nor to be expected. I've worked over a dozen jobs easily in this industry and not a single one has had an on-call requirement for any amount of time, let alone throughout the night. This will not be the case as much for ops people, but even then it's possible to find jobs that don't have an on-call requirement. Your mistake is thinking this is expected and putting up with it. Sleep is my most precious asset and to be on call 24/7, even once a month, would require at least a 50% raise for me. Though I have to say, if I was in your position and had a job lined up, I'd definitely wait until you were paged at 3am and respond by quitting. Seems like the only just way to go ...