Among people who are not self-employed, I don't know anyone who is truly "willing" to essentially give their personal time to their employer for free by working late and on weekends and being available 24/7 via portable communications. To be willing would imply that I have a choice in this in today's market, that most employer's don't expect these things of their employees as a condition of advancement and continued employment. It is not that I or most people I know will stretch the work to the time; it is that we will be given more and more work to fill more and more time expected of us. Just try telling your boss that you won't accept the company-provided cell phone or blackberry, that you won't answer calls from work after you've gone home or on the weekend, that as a principle you don't do overtime as a matter of course. In my last job, I and 90% of my colleagues worked 50-60 hour weeks as a rule not because most of us were so inefficient but because our employer wanted to keep the payroll down. Hey, project x is just one more thing on the pile, right? I left that job for one with more pay, but I can't say the conditions are any different-- that is just life in business these days.