Something that I haven't seen discussed (on HN or elsewhere) is normalizing longer workweeks for more pay. I understand there are many life circumstances that would make a shorter workweek desirable but there are also some circumstances that would make a normal 50- or 60-hour workweek desirable too (early retirement is the big one that comes to mind for me).
Can anyone here speak to hiring or being hired with the explicit agreement of working longer weeks for more money? I realize that crunch weeks and overwork happen too but that's not really what I'm thinking of.
Personally, I was more surprised by the various groups of people who _don't_ have higher metabolic rates:
> Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20. Interestingly, adult rates are stable until age 60, when they begin to decline. After age 90, humans use about 26% less energy daily, Pontzer says.
> The study also found that pregnant women don’t have higher metabolic rates than other adults; their energy use and calorie consumption scales up with body size
> The metabolic rate didn’t zoom up in hungry teenagers either
Can anyone here speak to hiring or being hired with the explicit agreement of working longer weeks for more money? I realize that crunch weeks and overwork happen too but that's not really what I'm thinking of.