From the Darrel Norton's Blog:

One of the most important things to remember is that you are not defined by your job.

I'm almost always in agreement with D-Ral, but I'm two heads about this.  To a certain extent, I want to be defined by my job.  That's to say that I want to LOVE what I do, and I want it to be a part of who I am.  A friend once gave me this advice: “Never go to work. Go to play. Do what you love; otherwise you'll spend half your life being miserable.“

Now, this has to be taken with a grain of salt.  Yes I love development, but no, I don't want to spend much more than 40 hours a week doing it. Otherwise I'll hate it!  That being said, I'm very reluctant to work overtime because of someone else's mistakes.  This is usually true when management screws up the scheduling. I'll gladly work overtime if I've made a mistake in scheduling or something I've written is broken. Or for *emergencies.*  My definition of *emergency* being a server crash [all of the multitude of things that I don't consider emergencies deleted].

-Brendan