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Pretty much any job I might have enjoyed more, if it's not a lot of fancy words for "become a celebrity", will look like minimum wage compared to software engineering. Even when it doesn't, pre-AI software engineers were aggressively stalking around the corners of dark alleys to cut the wages/number of seats of that job.

Most other lines of work guarantee poverty or are a riskier gamble with worse prizes and worse loses.

You want to be at the top of the titanic looking down at those swimming to what's left of the upper deck, not rearranging chairs seconds away from being underwater.