> I have a lot of friends who went into various fields, and it seems relative to the number of buttons we press daily, anyone who works on software makes great

> I have a lot of friends who went into various fields, and it seems relative to the number of buttons we press daily, anyone who works on software makes great money. We didn't spend a ton of $ to go to medical school and 3 years of residency. We didn't go to law school and take the bar. Most of us went to 4 years, or less, of school, and here we are making great money by utilizing the greatest tool of all time: the computer. This is one of the main reasons I'm a software engineer and shudder to think about doing anything else for a living, despite not even liking software that much. > It's uncomfortable because many of us didn't understand this going in. This is probably not as common as you think. Most of the SWEs I know switched over from other fields because it's an obviously easier gig. Epidemiology, architecture, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, archaeology, public policy. People are painfully aware of how easy we have it and that's precisely why they're (we're) SWEs, not because of any interest in coding itself.