Sounds like you had a poor education. I remember grade school pretty well actually. I remember getting my first taste of programming and I remember having a rea

Sounds like you had a poor education. I remember grade school pretty well actually. I remember getting my first taste of programming and I remember having a really great science teacher that passed their love of science onto me which a decade or so later would send me down my career path. There is definitely a good amount of busywork but to claim working in a sweatshop is better than school is nonsense. The difference is one, in principle anyway, sets you up for upward mobility while the other doesn't.