I started my career in the trades and I’m now a software engineer. You’re totally right. Software engineering is a pretty great job. The biggest difference I fi

I started my career in the trades and I’m now a software engineer. You’re totally right. Software engineering is a pretty great job. The biggest difference I find is with the ability to turn off. When I worked in trades when the day was done it was done. The work was physically harder, but not as mentally tasking. With my work now I find that it can take me as much as 10 days[1] to truly stop thinking about the problems I work on. So, sure, we have it okay in software, but let’s not pretend it’s not difficult. 1) this is my own experience when I went on paternity leave for a month. Despite having a lot going on in my home life it took me over a week to let go of work and focus on my family.