I'd say that the more you approach "coolness" in the software industry, the more you can expect to be ridden for extra hours. Game developers are probably as cl

I'd say that the more you approach "coolness" in the software industry, the more you can expect to be ridden for extra hours. Game developers are probably as close as possible to other creative popular types and have to pay for that status very dearly, while hundreds of thousands of enterprise developers toil in obscurity with pretty guaranteed 40h weeks.