>> How many software engineers can, hand to heart, claim honestly that they put in 8 full productive working hours day after day the way a cashier or warehouse

>> How many software engineers can, hand to heart, claim honestly that they put in 8 full productive working hours day after day the way a cashier or warehouse worker does? Every dev that I have ever worked with that was worth a professional recommendation meets the criteria that you are laying out. That's over more than 30 years in the industry so I talking about at least a 150-200 devs over the years that I have had the pleasure of working with. Are you actually in software? I am serious in that question because your skepticism strikes me as out-of-touch in some way.