Yes, it's a lot of fun. I'm working on a core team at Google, and honestly i'd keep doing it even if I had 10M stashed away. It is also very stressful and fru

Yes, it's a lot of fun. I'm working on a core team at Google, and honestly i'd keep doing it even if I had 10M stashed away. It is also very stressful and frustrating at times. However, early in my career I had challenging and stressful jobs with shitty managers who always tried to crack the whip, where I made 80k a year. Now at least my stressful job has me pampered between stresses and mostly my boss telling me I did a good job (with occasional critical feedback on how to improve). It's not an easy job though. I see a fair amount of coworkers counting their pennies so they can quit. Honestly I think you have to be a little bit crazy and enjoy tangly stressful problems to like this job. If you don't like messing with tech, digging in, feeling confused and lost for hours and days before an 'aha' moment, then its' going to seem like a slog.