> I see this mentality everywhere. Really? People absolutely worship hardware engineers who work on projects like the LHC, the ISS, or the JWST. Or even on muc

> I see this mentality everywhere. Really? People absolutely worship hardware engineers who work on projects like the LHC, the ISS, or the JWST. Or even on much more mundane things: "Wow, you design bridges? Such important work!" And if you're not ready to accept that medical researchers are second in status only to God Himself, then God Himself won't be able to help you. But software engineering? You mean those geeks who develop better ad targeting systems? What did they ever do (other than connect five billion people and revolutionize how every industry on the planet functions)? The really sad thing is that this attitude is shared by many software engineers themselves. I couldn't care less about what the "man on the street" thinks about a profession that he can't begin to comprehend. But watching this self-disdain coming from my own colleagues really hurts me.