I agree that being on-call is work, but I find the comparisons to other jobs misguided. For example, installing a swimming pool or building a car is a lot of w

I agree that being on-call is work, but I find the comparisons to other jobs misguided. For example, installing a swimming pool or building a car is a lot of work / resources for the "setup" that has to be paid for. However, the person who built the pool/car is not working while you swim. On the other hand, being on-call has zero setup cost (except maybe grabbing your laptop), but you still have to be there whether your servers swim or not. Still, I hated being on-call. Fixing servers in the middle of the night when nobody uses them, that's the definition of madness to me.