I think the cold, hard truth is that dev work is so far removed from the kind of work that our bodies and minds have evolved the capacity to do comfortably, that you are constantly in a state of disharmony with your self.
Without constant, active measures to counteract the damage from being at a screen 60 hours a week, your body will atrophy, you will get RSI's, and you will burnout.
It is deeply inhuman work, and the amount of adaptation required is insane. Personally, I am only doing this work for the money, and when I have enough saved, I am going to retire early and become a baker or something.
That is a completely incorrect analogy! Our species had tens of thousands of years to adapt to primitive work. Computers have been around for less than a century. We haven't even begun to adapt.
Without constant, active measures to counteract the damage from being at a screen 60 hours a week, your body will atrophy, you will get RSI's, and you will burnout.
It is deeply inhuman work, and the amount of adaptation required is insane. Personally, I am only doing this work for the money, and when I have enough saved, I am going to retire early and become a baker or something.