I have been doing software professionally for nearly 25 years. Even if the points the author lays out are very true, don't you ever take them in as being true

I have been doing software professionally for nearly 25 years. Even if the points the author lays out are very true, don't you ever take them in as being true for you. One thing I have learned in all these years is that you can rule your own narrative in your job. And when patient, factual and not backing down when demanding answers on 'why', you will find out fast if you are made for being part of an often labour heavy workforce. Fact is that what the authors lays out, is not at all special to software engineering jobs. All industries are like that. We are not special in any way. And it starts by telling yourself that you are not special, but that you differ yourself by having a qualitative integrity - though that will take many years to get and always be in process.