I’m in Australia, and the contracts here always specify a min number of hours (normally 38).
I can’t see a problem with how you’re working at an individual level, and as you say, you are productive and working in-line with your contract. However, the original poster was talking about young people not feeling motivated due to inequality.
The fact that you’ve managed to find a job that works well for you as an experienced professional does not change the fact that a young person should be working hard (and potentially long). Would you have gotten to where you are if you’d done the minimum your entire career?
> Would you have gotten to where you are if you’d done the minimum your entire career?
I think so? Or at least somewhere like it. Because I've always been optimizing for working less. I got plenty of D's on final exams because a B or A was assured, for instance. It just so happens a software job in the 2010s was a juicy path of least resistance. I'm glad to have found it (part of that was luck and meeting some people who suggested I do it).
I can’t see a problem with how you’re working at an individual level, and as you say, you are productive and working in-line with your contract. However, the original poster was talking about young people not feeling motivated due to inequality.
The fact that you’ve managed to find a job that works well for you as an experienced professional does not change the fact that a young person should be working hard (and potentially long). Would you have gotten to where you are if you’d done the minimum your entire career?