> I hope you understand how lucky you've been. Tbh, I maintain a several-million-dollar-a-year project with essentially no IT resources besides myself and my r

> I hope you understand how lucky you've been. Tbh, I maintain a several-million-dollar-a-year project with essentially no IT resources besides myself and my requests are reasonable. At this point, three developers [including someone my boss really, really was hoping would replace me on this] have failed to handle this project effectively. So it isn't just luck. > Would you say majority of devs have it like you? The Devs I know personally do but they are largely my coworkers or my coworkers at previous employers. > Because I've experienced the working hour issue. And that's not even at a startup. Yeah, its probably because I've been largely self-managing with hard deadlines really only when we have contractual changes.