I&#x27;d say a majority of those who graduated my CS class 6.5 years ago now own their own home, and that&#x27;s in the UK where devs aren&#x27;t as relatively well paid and house prices are high. There are plenty of good employers out there, though they don&#x27;t spend all their time hiring because they have low turnover.<p>As for &quot;eventually end up doing something else&quot; isn&#x27;t that career development? We can&#x27;t bemoan having non-technical senior managers if some developers don&#x27;t go on to do that.