Yeah. My current take on the shit coder jobs I've taken, as compared to the rocking blue collar jobs I've performed, is when you're a coder you're getting paid

Yeah. My current take on the shit coder jobs I've taken, as compared to the rocking blue collar jobs I've performed, is when you're a coder you're getting paid to learn. Paid to learn. Does that sound noble? Maybe it is. It depends what you're learning, frankly. Learning to code for the very first time, and seeing the fruit of your imagination materialize in front of you? Great! Learning the idiosyncrasies of a system that was designed to dodge responsibility?