My favorite over the top rant on the pains of this profession: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stilldrinking.org&#x2F;programming-sucks" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stilldrinking.org&#x2F;programming-sucks</a> It&#x27;s much more than just sitting in front of a screen all the time, which I think a lot of people can think isn&#x27;t that bad either given they themselves spend so much time in front of their monitors and televisions... (That particular aspect doesn&#x27;t bother me at all, I was a gamer before I was a programmer.)