This job is stressful because we deal with machines. Humans are also difficult, but I feel we're wired for that kind of difficult. Anything that depends on mach

This job is stressful because we deal with machines. Humans are also difficult, but I feel we're wired for that kind of difficult. Anything that depends on machine behaviour is somehow uncanny. Even a traffic light causes a little anxiety. Multiply that by the complexity of the machines we deal with and you get it. Not all the work in programming is equally bad, but the hard kind is usually very bad.