Good morning, American worker.

You, with your longer hours and much higher standards (there are reasons beyond culture and morality Europe has remained much less off for the past 60 years), do not have a lock on “career suffering”.
Other people in other developed nations worry about disappointments, failures, set-backs about this important/not-important thing called Career. But no one uses defeat like we do:

Suffering overcomes the mind’s inertia, develops the thinking powers, opens up a new world, and drives the soul to action. –Anthony Evans