> I have a questionable habit of working into the evening, and sometimes on weekends. I'm assuming you are an employee. If not, then my comment may not apply.

> I have a questionable habit of working into the evening, and sometimes on weekends. I'm assuming you are an employee. If not, then my comment may not apply. If I were in the same team as you, the fact that you also work on the weekends will make me feel a bit uncomfortable. I would never tell you that because I believe one do with his life what one wants, but putting it on perspective: - we are suppose to be "professionals". Among other things, being a profressional means: to work the "correct" amount of hours. Not more, not less. Since it's difficult to compute "the correct amount of hours", we usually take the 40h/week Monday-Friday as the "standard". So, it's obvious that upper management will love to have people working more hours because in 90% of the companies out there the work that needs to be carried on (e.g., plain CRUD apps) is directly dependant of the amount of hours the team puts in it. So, as an employee as well, I wouldn't like to be in the position of "the guys who just works 40h/week" and don't get any decent salary raise. > I'm given both freedom and responsibility. I'm early in my career. Young people can work all day, so that's why you haven't experimented anything bad yet. If you take advice from people on in the internet, then here it goes mine: I'm in my late 30s, and if there is one thing I could fix in my early years as a software engineer it would be to work less for my company and more for me.