Still, you&#x27;re working inside, for a steady, generally hefty, paycheck, with very low chances of catastrophic physical injury, with very low exposure to harmful chemicals and carcinogens.  It&#x27;s a high-demand field, with a lot of options.<p>Beats the pants off of back-breaking manual or industrial labor.<p>I certainly think there&#x27;s a huge problem with a lot of software jobs being essentially pointless, with an enormous disconnect between the time and effort expended and the tangible results of that effort, which takes a psychological toll.  So much of what software and IT does is digging holes and filling them back in, or battling imaginary rules and processes, working on top of a fragile, rickety stack of other software that fails if you look at it cross-eyed.