Largely depends on how old you are. Most younger people who aren't pursuing SWE still know how lucrative it is. Less so with older people. As for why it is unf

Largely depends on how old you are. Most younger people who aren't pursuing SWE still know how lucrative it is. Less so with older people. As for why it is unfathomable why someone might choose another career: we don't realize the work SWEs do is not that easy. We are always surrounded by nerdy SWE types, so we don't realize how averse most people are to programming in general. I have tried helping some friends get into tech by spoon-feeding them all I know about the industry, but they just don't want to code.