You shouldn't feel hypocritical you know, someone eventually had to say it. You're entirely right especially the part where you said "the own all of your time in particular", my last job (presently I don't have a job) came with a promise that I wouldn't have to work all the time (a trick!) I ended up working more than I bargained for, because I was always called to travel for facility inspections etc and the worst thing is there would be no prior information, so deep inside me, I would have to be ready for that call even when I didn't really know when it was coming, it affected a lot of things about my life, it limited my thinking and I couldn't even make personal plans like giving out appointments to see my family. Everything became a maybe because I was never sure when that call would come in. I mean I don't have a job at the moment, things are not really the way I'd like it to be, but I feel free, that pressure and uncertainty was sure eating me away gradually. I really wish no one would have to go through that, but that goes a long way to show THE stress and difficulties we go through just to try and make life work, funny thing is some jobs end up increasing the problem we were trying to solve in the first place.
This sums it up for me entirely and I totally agree:
Don't stay at a job that isn't going to help you grow as a person.
Wow! That sounds terrible having to travel without notice. At that point, You truly are working all the time.
Exactly! I really was working all the time come to think of it & the boss in question a sour miser, only thing he cared about was getting his job done, I still have no regrets I left really. I woke one day to realize it was more like a modern day slave situation than a job. That was the defining moment, I didn't know what I was leaving to but I knew I just had to leave for my health and peace of mind.