Free food and misery: the life of a techie
Wow.  I&#x27;m a little surprised to read such a dim view of the lot of a software developer in the economist.  I&#x27;m glad to see it in a mainstream publication, though.<p>I don&#x27;t think that software development is necessarily a bad career, but I do think it has been vastly oversold relative to other paths available to well educated, hardworking people who can choose their own career path in the US.  And I think that this overselling is a big part of a PR campaign to convince congress and the public that there is a shortage of software developers.<p>IN short, while this article presents an unusually pessimistic image of software development as a career, and I may not fully agree with it, I do welcome this rebalancing.