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I'm someone who did this work for decades and am speaking from my own experience. You mentioned in another comment that your second-hand experience with this is

I'm someone who did this work for decades and am speaking from my own experience. You mentioned in another comment that your second-hand experience with this is from someone in a union. Which, sure, if I'd been able to find union cooking work maybe I'd still be happy over there. As it was I was working 60 hour weeks while my teeth were rotting out of my head and I hadn't had a sunday off to go to church in four years. Regardless of the pride I took in my work I think I'm well positioned to describe it as draining.

explaininjs 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38449769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38449769 Plenty of software jobs might be called draining. For instance the contractors HN loves to pity. But I’m a contractor and I love it, more than my prior FAANG time even. Still, should we expect public school teachers to deride the idea of being a software engineer because some instances of it are stressful?