Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering
My Own Addition:<p>14. Those who code for a living make good money.<p>I have a lot of friends who went into various fields, and it seems relative to the number of buttons we press daily, anyone who works on software makes great money. We didn&#x27;t spend a ton of $ to go to medical school and 3 years of residency. We didn&#x27;t go to law school and take the bar. Most of us went to 4 years, or less, of school, and here we are making great money by utilizing the greatest tool of all time: the computer.<p>It&#x27;s uncomfortable because many of us didn&#x27;t understand this going in. We liked computers for a long time, we had a penchant for working with them, and it turned out that made us great money. Meanwhile, our friends who are teachers, firefighters, child-care workers, etc. are doing tough work daily for less pay, perhaps simply because they didn&#x27;t use computers much or didn&#x27;t like them. And yet, their jobs are ESSENTIAL and we need people to do them even though they&#x27;re grueling and underpaid.