I am confused. Why do you think software engineers stop working as much as MBAs when they land a job? That's when they have to start studying even more beside w

I am confused. Why do you think software engineers stop working as much as MBAs when they land a job? That's when they have to start studying even more beside working. 54 sounds about average for an engineer anyway. In Germany for example it's not rare to have 9 hour working days, with 30 to 60 minute lunch breaks in between. If it's so then basically one week comes to about 45 hours / week. If you study 2 hours a day, read books or read the news, follow trends, watch recordings of past conferences, etc which are pretty standard things that you are supposed to do on your job then it easily comes to 54 hours / week. So that's not high at all.