Ask HN: Reasons to stay in Software Engineering
The effort to reward ratio is as good as it gets. Professions with similar or higher reward usually do so only with a lot of effort. Think litigation lawyers or doctors that pull crazy amount of overtime. There&#x27;s a lot of jobs in the software field that will pull in 6 figures with great conditions and reasonable effort. That&#x27;s why everyone is fighting each other to enter the field, for better or worse.<p>And while &quot;everyone can be a software developer&quot; right now because the demand is so high (we&#x27;re in a middle of a mini-dotcom-boom), it won&#x27;t always be that way. Expect to see saturation in the next few years. Yes, the self taught person who works their butt off will be able to make it, but it won&#x27;t be common, or will be limited to entry level positions, which will become more and more competitive. We&#x27;re already seeing this happening a bit.