A colleague of mine referred to software engineering as a stepping stone for her. She never saw it as something she would do until retirement. It took years un

A colleague of mine referred to software engineering as a stepping stone for her. She never saw it as something she would do until retirement. It took years until I came around to the same realization for myself. It's significantly harder to coordinate and architect "layer 8" bullshit than it is to write apps or lay networks. And there's infinite layers of complexity in it as well. You don't hear a whole lot of people in management claiming it's fun like you do in software engineering. That is probably a clue. Well, it was for me anyways.