[SirMaster]

The world runs on software. So yes, someone who can understand, create, maintain, manage, etc software, i.e. a software engineer is certainly a sustainable career.

I really don't understand how anyone gets the idea that it's not or isn't.

There will always be a need to support, create, understand, and otherwise manipulate the software that make machines and devices work and do what we want them to do.

[karamanolev]

A lot of people who get the idea that it isn't (a sustainable, valuable career) give me the impression of asking a tangential question:

> Is SWE a career that will remain in insane demand, commanding outsized salaries and giving crazy perks.

May be, may not be, but as you said - the world runs of software and will like continue to do so.

[SirMaster]

I guess my definition of what makes a sustainable career does not at all need to include "being in insane demand", or "commanding outsized salaries and crazy perks".

Maybe the question is being asked by people who got into this industry to get rich or something, I don't know.

I got into it because I love working with computers and making software and it seems to pay fair enough for me. I don't see any shortage or work or opportunities to make software and make more than enough money to live a comfortable life.

To me that is a perfectly reasonable definition of sustainable.