I definitely would have kept my software engineering career longer if I could have found a decent job like I used to have. But what it means to be and what's ex

I definitely would have kept my software engineering career longer if I could have found a decent job like I used to have. But what it means to be and what's expected of a professional software engineer today is so different from how I spent my career and how I like/need to work. So I've retired rather than continue fighting it.