Still, you're working inside, for a steady, generally hefty, paycheck, with very low chances of catastrophic physical injury, with very low exposure to harmful

Still, you're working inside, for a steady, generally hefty, paycheck, with very low chances of catastrophic physical injury, with very low exposure to harmful chemicals and carcinogens. It's a high-demand field, with a lot of options. Beats the pants off of back-breaking manual or industrial labor. I certainly think there's a huge problem with a lot of software jobs being essentially pointless, with an enormous disconnect between the time and effort expended and the tangible results of that effort, which takes a psychological toll. So much of what software and IT does is digging holes and filling them back in, or battling imaginary rules and processes, working on top of a fragile, rickety stack of other software that fails if you look at it cross-eyed.