Software engineers get to have leverage 100% of the time. Poor teachers: when I was teaching it was more like 20% of the time, and the other 80% was breaking r

Software engineers get to have leverage 100% of the time. Poor teachers: when I was teaching it was more like 20% of the time, and the other 80% was breaking rocks. Planning, marking, parents, discipline, pastoral care, sports, and straight up babysitting. That’s a big part of why the pay is so different, in my experience. Teachers have to put in a lot of time and effort to make a diff[erence] and the rest of the work is completely unskilled labor. For SWEs, the next pull request is only limited by your ability to focus and type. I’m a full time SWE these days, and enjoying the 10x pay.