This attitude is counter-productive and will lead to only being able to get jobs precisely like the ones you describe, where you're over-worked and underpaid.

This attitude is counter-productive and will lead to only being able to get jobs precisely like the ones you describe, where you're over-worked and underpaid. Work is what you make of it. If you want to hate work, that thing you have to spend 40+ hours of your week doing, then nobody is going to stop you. One can make work into something that adds to your life instead of takes away from it. If you can figure out how to do this then you'll find that everything about your life changes utterly for the better.