Seems like I have weak fingers for the grades I ' m climbing . <| sep |> Why the fuck does my home country of Austria have conscription then ? We ' re a neutral country for god ' s sake , aren ' t in the NATO and have a severely underfunded military not that this is a bad thing , because it isn ' t <| sep |> The hours . Many companies have crunch , where you ' re expected to put in 60 or even 80 hours of work every week . Weekends , holidays , and vacations are a distant memory . Your outside relationships start to melt away . Management insists that crunch is temporary , just until the need is resolved , but I ' ve seen more than one company where just for now crunch became the indefinite status quo . This is blatantly illegal , of course , but employees don ' t complain because they ' re afraid to tank their careers .