It sounds like you are unhappy with the amount of late nights and weekends you’re spending.
If you’re still spending backbreaking hours even after the product has been going for awhile, or simply used to like the idea but are not liking it anymore, it might be time to have a heart to heart with your boss. Different companies have different expectations, but at my own company, we’ve always had a strong desire to avoid that sort of intense and demanding work schedule. We’ve thankfully not needed to ask people to come in on a weekend... ever, I believe. We’ve had to fight a fire or two here or there, but it was typically a pretty quick troubleshooting session, and then taking a thoughtful approach during the workweek to figuring out a way to avoid that emergency scenario in the future.
Life is more than work, and it sounds like you’re feeling resentful of your employment situation. Life is short, so do something about it, whether better work life balance, requesting money that will make you happy (if that amount exists and the company is willing to pay it), or something else.
It sounds like you are unhappy with the amount of late nights and weekends you’re spending.
If you’re still spending backbreaking hours even after the product has been going for awhile, or simply used to like the idea but are not liking it anymore, it might be time to have a heart to heart with your boss. Different companies have different expectations, but at my own company, we’ve always had a strong desire to avoid that sort of intense and demanding work schedule. We’ve thankfully not needed to ask people to come in on a weekend... ever, I believe. We’ve had to fight a fire or two here or there, but it was typically a pretty quick troubleshooting session, and then taking a thoughtful approach during the workweek to figuring out a way to avoid that emergency scenario in the future.
Life is more than work, and it sounds like you’re feeling resentful of your employment situation. Life is short, so do something about it, whether better work life balance, requesting money that will make you happy (if that amount exists and the company is willing to pay it), or something else.