The simple and blunt answer is that software dev is easy, the hours are lax, and it pays well. By easy, I mean my most challenging days are those in which I ha

The simple and blunt answer is that software dev is easy, the hours are lax, and it pays well. By easy, I mean my most challenging days are those in which I have to solve a hard code/architecture/etc problem and solving hard problems inside a simple defined space is fun.