The industry that I work in (landscape architecture) is toxic as well as its adjacent industries like architecture, construction, etc.
It’s become normalized to work over 40+ a week as salaried positions. Every place that I’ve interviewed for and worked at has completely normalized working long hours UNPAID. When I’ve tried talking to colleagues about it, everyone just shrugs it off as being apart of our profession.
I’m getting very discouraged in finding a decent firm that actually lets people get off of work at 40 hours.
I’ve been told and have seen that if you do not put more than 40 hours, you’ll basically face unemployment.
I don’t want to have to suck it up and work 50+ hours a week just because it’s the norm. I don’t even know where to start with fighting this.