Allow me to make an edit: >There's infinite things to do in many software companies. You're only given 40 hours of work per week. If you had the stamina for tw

Allow me to make an edit: >There's infinite things to do in many software companies. You're only given 40 hours of work per week. If you had the stamina for two jobs, then they'd give you 80 hours, with more than double the pay. That's what factories and gig jobs do. But everyone believes that 40 hours is the peak, maybe less, before efficiency drops. You need rest to do well. >If you can perform, then just get a better position or a better job. Take on more responsibilities. Use the spare time to fix the problems that nobody brings up. If you can't, ... If you can't, you're working at a company similar to most people where taking on additional projects outside of your scope is not rewarded with "double pay". Its rewarded with leadership believing you don't have enough work. The claim above makes sense at startups/etc where growth is determined by your output. At my employer, I'm literally not eligible for a promotion or raise until I've been there for 2 years. Regardless of how many hours I put, my (measurable) direct impact on revenue, my (measurable) reductions in cost, it is against policy to promote or pay me more. That is why people look to get seconds jobs. That is why the only against policy raise I was given occurred when 2 coworkers left and cited this specific policy, so the company feared more people would leave. Lets ask why I'm not cxo or even senior level, when I open my companies financials and see myself managing 6x more revenue than the next person with 15% better profit margin.