[ahnberg]

I'm one of the few persons I ever heard of that actually enjoyed being on-call. I believe it goes with my puzzle problem solving mentality to an extent. Being randomly challenged with a problem to look at where you might not know the solution, simply excites me.

Combining on-call duty with an approach of weeding out repeating issues, build better systems and ensuring that unnecessary calls don't happen is key of course, being woken up 25 times for silly predictable errors is pointless and draining.

And finally having an employer that doesn't expect you to be in at 8am if you've been up all night is also very important, catching up on sleep is necessary to manage your balance and health. But given this freedom, I totally dig it. :)

[eloisant]

> And finally having an employer that doesn't expect you to be in at 8am if you've been up all night is also very important, catching up on sleep is necessary to manage your balance and health. But given this freedom, I totally dig it. :)

Check the labour laws in your country, I'm pretty sure expecting people to be in at 8am after working on an incident during the night as part of your on-call is illegal.

In any normal country there are laws to ensure employees get enough rest every day.