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I’m asking this because it seems like burn out and work stress is so extremely common amongst SWEs. I’ve never worked in another career, but for myself, I think the origin of this stress is; There are never ending sprints. There are never ending features. There are always bugs and things to triage coming in. There is no limit to the amount of work an SWE can do. SWEs sometimes are expected to do OnCall, DevOps, SRE, Cybersecurity, cloud work, all in one… Tech companies see almost all work that an SWE does as an additive value multiplier, even if it’s some obscure internal tooling, they will find something for you to do and you will get a roadmap, polish, 3 PMs telling you CUJs, etc. Is this what every job is like? I read on Reddit from sys admin types and other IT related roles that… they actually have a ton of free time. They work 1-2 hours a day just monitoring systems, keeping the lights on, very light deliverables if any, and they make $80-100k year. I’m very curious about the day to day of analysts, accountants, sysadmins, etc. Are they expected to deliver the same amount of constant output that SWEs are? TC: $180k
Most other careers, whether well paid or not, are also an endless stream of tasks. Consider doctors, pilots, delivery drivers, construction workers, auto factory workers, etc. It never ends, for any of them.
It ends when they go home. All of them.
It can end for you when you go home too. I shut off my laptop at 5:30pm
I think SWEs work the most in IT company and it’s not even close.
They also get paid the most among ICs
why would they pay you full time if not. btw with swe i think there are also busy and non busy times. ie crunch time before big feature release and chill time after
some jobs are easy. some are like swe and much harder. accountants have never ending federal deadlines. but office admins are coasting and just answering phones and putting labels on folders. train conductors just work their hours and go home. they dont need to plan any projects, stress over deadlines and stakeholders. they just do the operational job and go home.
Train conductors have deadlines multiple times a day. I think you meant to say, some jobs are easy like SWE. Does not make much sense otherwise.
a single day deadline is not a “deadline” in the traditional sense that spans months or years that is becomes the source of long term stress. that is hard. making sure your train arrives at 12:15 is not a “deadline”. it is an operational role that doesn’t have unknowns or stress. my comment makes sense. swe is not an easy job.
SWEs is one of the easiest jobs but also most entitled. You work from your desk in an air conditioned office. Go work is a car factory or mine as an engineer. You will be grateful for your current job. Politics and stuff, that is present everywhere.
This guy knows nothing about mental stress
Mental stress is there in SWE, but why do you think other engineering fields don't have it. With all these being equal I said SWE is easier. SWEs demand work from home. Not many engineering disciplines can even ask for it. For example the Internet doesn't work magically. Someone installed the infrastructure for it. So that we can demand work from home.
Wife is a head of math department at a prestigious private high school and she works as much as I do as a SWE. There is never ending lesson plan that she had to do depending on the progress of each of her students. She also had to travel to various cities for meetings and presentations. She has continuous classes from 7am in the morning to 3:30 pm everyday with only 30 min lunch break in between. she leaves home at 6 every morning and comes home around 4 in the afternoon and then she has to do her lesson plans, correct students homework and sometimes she has to attend zoom meetings as well so she doesn’t become free until almost 6 o’clock every day so that’s almost a 11 hour-work schedule every day. That’s definitely more than most of the software engineers I know because you’re looking at 11 hours of continuous working every day. she gave me a totally different perspective on what a teacher does. Yes, some people might think that at least they have winter break and summer break. True however, during those days they still have to do the lesson plans for next year and still have meetings. it’s not like a summer vacation where you don’t have to do things every day.
Isn’t Google full of SWEs coasting?
Maybe in 2006, it’s 2024 now. Do you really think 100k SWEs are sitting around in bean bags and playing ping pong?
Yeah Zezima. We need answers. Something isn’t adding up.