"I don’t mind taking on a difficult task, I just minded having to do it alone and unseen." Better to have gotten out of tech, then. In a culture as dominated

"I don’t mind taking on a difficult task, I just minded having to do it alone and unseen." Better to have gotten out of tech, then. In a culture as dominated by MVP and ship-it-now as we seem to have become, there is not going to be much celebration of craftmanship nor craftsman. Demand for, yes. Appreciation, no. ~ EDIT: "Many of them are single, many of them work 70 hour weeks for years and survive with minimal love and compassion and kindness. They are also unseen. There are not many people, and especially very few women, who can truly appreciate their technical accomplishments." ...which introduces a very unfortunate set of circumstances where women in tech aren't interested in guys in tech, because the guys in tech aren't well-socialized or attractive. Contrast this with, say, civil or chemical engineers: a good friend of mine regularly goes to meetings of the American Society of Chemical Engineers (or something like that?) and the demographics are even and sometimes you even meet nice people and go out. Very different from my experience in the dev world.