>Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience? I'm not paid boatloads of money for 99% of my work, i'm paid

>Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience? I'm not paid boatloads of money for 99% of my work, i'm paid boatloads of money for the 1% of the time I have to do something very impactful. If using the right data structure for your 'cancel prime membership button' means a .1% server load reduction and 1% higher reliability, it's worth paying Joe Blow Amazon SDE 300k a year. It's the same with Doctors. Most of the time they say "take two Tylenol and call me in the morning". Or maybe they're stitching someone up in the ER and they're doing just as good of a job as a nurse. But once and a while they save lives with their decision making.