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Yep it's bullshit. Just don't imagine that the grass is any greener elsewhere. Most professions suck. Work/life balance for doctors is something they read about

Yep it's bullshit. Just don't imagine that the grass is any greener elsewhere. Most professions suck. Work/life balance for doctors is something they read about, lawyers have the highest suicide rates in the country, accountants grind soul crushing busy work, bankers call uppers "tie straighteners" to get them through the day, civil/mechanical engineering chews up the "weak" and cripples the "strong". Academia is a cess pit. Trades get romanticised (as "honest work"), but is its own version of hell (hours, physical toll, social hierarchy, etc etc). A very few people get lucky and don't deal with this. But from what I've seen, the rule is that work is mostly hell, everywhere.

avgDev 4y ago
Good point. I'm sometimes upset that I have to dig through a legacy database to figure out how to make my new web app work with it. I sometimes have to commit programming crimes to work around a legacy stored procedures that the company is unwilling to touch at that point. However, my job is relatively relaxed. My boss doesn't require any core hours from me and I go to the office every few weeks to touch base and attend meetings. I then talk to friends who are doctors and pharmacists.....and I wouldn't be able to do their jobs. The pharmacist works 12 hours days. Mostly standing. She cannot leave for lunch. She rarely has a moment to text or do anything else at work. She under intense pressure to show up everyday. If she misses like 3 days due to any emergency she is going to get fired. All I can say fuck that. Software development has its demons but most devs can make six figures changing the color of a button or creating relatively simple CRUD apps once they understand modern frameworks and databases.