[crasp]

There are always jobs that are worse in some way. If a plumber screws up you might get a wet floor or sewage in the street. If some banking software makes a flaw, you can't just pick up a mop and clean it up.

There are always jobs that come out worse in some category compared to programming. The problem here specifically is that given you have written 50% of the software people are using and investors are making some millions out of it while you make $40K a year, because they sort of lured you into a deal that apparently is not working out too great for you because you were so focussed on getting the lines of code rolling out they sort of took advantage of the situation?

[paublyrne]

Investors may be taking advantage of your labour but this is the nature of every business. The business owners take advantage of employee labour to make a lot more money than the employees. I find the entitlement to better terms than people inother fields that frequently crops up here incredibly pretentious and self righteous.

[Cpoll]

I think that's a disingenuous comparison. If you're comparing to banking software, imagine a plumber that causes four floors of a high-rise to get flooded, leading to 5-figures of damage and additional lost time. Or perhaps an underwater plumber, where the cost to fix the leak is high.

If we're looking at house plumbing, it might be more fair to compare it to a CRUD app that facilitates iguana breeding (unsolved problem here, folks!).

[1812Overture]

BOSS: Uh, Bob, you forgot to close a loop in your code so we've got a bit of an iguana problem...

PROGRAMMER: What kind of problem?

BOSS: Call the Pentagon.

[triplesec]

... or perhaps the Laundry