You're right. Sadly most of us do not work software development jobs. We work in typing factories. The difference is that a software development job is about fi

You're right. Sadly most of us do not work software development jobs. We work in typing factories. The difference is that a software development job is about finishing the program on deadline. Instead we're expected to be present so that we can be typing in some kind of editor most of the time, to remind the rest of the product team that software work is happening as they speak. The engineering manager can ask us to be present for more time, but I can't bring myself to physically think for more than 6 hours at a stretch, so it leads to the first and last 2 hours of the day basically being wasted time. I'd be more enthusiastic about it if we were solving interesting problems or learning new tools, but I'm basically grinding away at the exact same problems I was solving a year ago, so there's nothing interesting about the work. It's just a typing factory.