[brundolf]

It depends on what stresses you out. I have a lot of savings (so not hugely stressed about income stability, relative to other factors) and my chief sources of stress at work include feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase and feeling like I don't have the power to make things better, so working at smaller companies or even startups tends to be less stressful for me.

[garbene]

Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling.

My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later, and I still only have a faint idea what that goddamn program did. Stuff of nightmares.

[xupybd]

Ha that was my job for many years. Training and mentoring is not something you I've experienced in the software industry.