...there are people in the comments talking about working 65 hours a week as a regular thing...
I've been working 20 years in the IT departments of corporate Australia, and the only time I've worked more than 50 hours a week is a) in the run up to a new computer system going live, b) just after a new computer system goes live.
Back to the question interviewers ask about “Well, why didn’t you stay in your position until you found another job?”
I'd probably answer with "I needed the break in order to regain my equilibrium after my last position, and was willing to deal with the financial consequences of the break in income". Truthful, if long-winded, and hopefully neither explicitly codes your last work as toxic, nor implies that you're unable to hack standard workplace stress.
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I've been working 20 years in the IT departments of corporate Australia, and the only time I've worked more than 50 hours a week is a) in the run up to a new computer system going live, b) just after a new computer system goes live.
Back to the question interviewers ask about “Well, why didn’t you stay in your position until you found another job?”
I'd probably answer with "I needed the break in order to regain my equilibrium after my last position, and was willing to deal with the financial consequences of the break in income". Truthful, if long-winded, and hopefully neither explicitly codes your last work as toxic, nor implies that you're unable to hack standard workplace stress.