Yeah, I have to say I envy a lot of the other people in this thread.<p>I had a very similar deal. I was on call 24&#x2F;7&#x2F;365 for two years. Generally something came up at least twice a week. Usually in the evening or on holidays. Often a production issue or an &quot;urgent&quot; ad-hoc query request (they always needed some crazy slicing of data RIGHT AWAY because of customer X or Y or...) but we did, once or twice have a &quot;WE NEED THIS CRITICAL FEATURE WE NEVER EVEN HINTED AT NOW NOW NOW&quot; deal.<p>No extra pay and the job itself paid only 45k.<p>I recommend you get out. It just wears too much on you to effectively always be at work.<p>Now I don&#x27;t get to do basically any development and the work is boring, but at least I get paid a lot more and I&#x27;m not on call. Sigh. Guess you can&#x27;t have everything.