>Software engineering is one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode" (I moved from academia over a decade ago, and I know the difference).
well I have worked all sorts of physically demanding jobs, digging ditches, building offices, tearing down offices...
So yes Software Engineering is easy - except when it's not. When it's easy it is real easy. When it's not it is significantly worse than most of the time at these other jobs. It is hard to explain the stress that a computer can give you when it is refusing for hours to do what you tell it to, but that stress is a lot worse than the stresses of landscaping in my experience.
well I have worked all sorts of physically demanding jobs, digging ditches, building offices, tearing down offices...
So yes Software Engineering is easy - except when it's not. When it's easy it is real easy. When it's not it is significantly worse than most of the time at these other jobs. It is hard to explain the stress that a computer can give you when it is refusing for hours to do what you tell it to, but that stress is a lot worse than the stresses of landscaping in my experience.