Its not about work life balance. Its about the company treating you as disposable thrash..... u do all the work and the consultant who just talk get all the bonuses/promotion/increment.... worst still some of the consultant are not even the least of a bit technical and anyhow promise customer feature that cannot be delivered in the stated timeline and you are there to pick up the **** =P.... they wont say consultant anyhow promise, they will say the technical folks are incompetent