<sarc>Yeah, writing code all day is so much more fulfilling than being a doctor or a teacher or a plumber or any number of things without which society would fa

<sarc>Yeah, writing code all day is so much more fulfilling than being a doctor or a teacher or a plumber or any number of things without which society would fall apart. And people who don't to technical work all have drudge jobs with no variety or intellectual challenge. </sarc> I'm not at all surprised at how non-technical people balance work and fulfilment. I am sometimes curious as to how they balance their checkbook considering the decline in real incomes for many critical professions. In my experience, many programmers grossly over-estimate the actual real impact of their work, especially in echo-chambers like the SF Bay Area where their hubris is reinforced by high wages. In general I don't like the anti-tech sentiment that is developing, but as time goes on I understand more and more where it comes from.