It's not at all ridiculous but at the end of the day it turns out that our excitement for our craft is turned against us (as in making us work more hours for no

It's not at all ridiculous but at the end of the day it turns out that our excitement for our craft is turned against us (as in making us work more hours for no extra pay or anything at all really except a little better resume as you said; and the cases where the resume gets enriched are IMO super rare).