Pretty darn happy. It's inside work with no heavy lifting, I get paid way above the median wage, and I get to intermittently learn new things, and build new st

Pretty darn happy. It's inside work with no heavy lifting, I get paid way above the median wage, and I get to intermittently learn new things, and build new stuff. I'm not a constantly ecstatic ball of happiness, but that sounds more like a drug-induced dream than something that real people get to be. Instead I'm "mostly satisfied, with occasional peaks, and some bits that annoy me." - and that's a lot better than the non-programming jobs I've had.