Full-time software developer with a traditional employer (not a startup). I don't work nights and weekends. I would have no problem with the occasional extra l

Full-time software developer with a traditional employer (not a startup). I don't work nights and weekends. I would have no problem with the occasional extra labor in special circumstances, but if it was a regular thing I would just find another job. If I worked all weekend, would the CEO be grateful? Would he come over and mow my lawn while I was working? What if I volunteered my labor around his house for the weekend? Would he be grateful enough to properly staff the engineering department of his company? Working nights and weekends deprives your peers of the opportunity for a job. Every hour you work is one less hour ownership has to pay for. You are suppressing your wage and the wages of your peers.