[sfpotter]

Did I say that programming isn't meaningful? No, I obviously didn't. But thanks for your hostile and blinkered response.

I can think of examples of people in my life who have these professions on either side of the coin (find it meaningful, find it a drag, whatever).

I'm a programmer and find it meaningful. I also know people who are programmers and hate it. In fact, I've also worked as a chef and a teacher. I found there to be both satisfying and unsatisfying things about each of these jobs.

Clearly, different people find different work meaningful.

Having a small percentage of the jobs in society be sufficiently well compensated is a sure path to a large number of people being unsatisfied in their careers.

[avgDev]

I'm not trying to have an argument but you've said "There are many other jobs that frankly provide significantly more meaning and personal gratification to the person doing them". I was providing a counter argument to that statement because it sounded very "the grass is always greener on the other side".

Not sure why you feel I was being hostile towards you. You seem to be really getting defensive in almost aggressive manner.