100%. Making your life your work isn't necessarily bad, if you've come to that decision of your own free will and after careful consideration of the alternative

100%. Making your life your work isn't necessarily bad, if you've come to that decision of your own free will and after careful consideration of the alternatives, but making your life a faceless cog in a bureaucracy is a life unlived. It only makes sense to treat work that way if you're a co-founder or co-owner.