Computer Software Engineer in list of least stressful careers... WTF?

Post by goldham » Sun, May 16, 2010, 12:31 AM UTC

Post by stretchwithme » Sun, May 16, 2010, 1:21 AM UTC

russell wrote: post #2

I think so. I like programming, and I work for smaller companies which tend to have reasonable hours. Since the move from waterfall development to agile with releases ever week or two, death marches are a thing of the past. Or have I just had it lucky?

Post by benologist » Sun, May 16, 2010, 2:48 AM UTC

stretchwithme wrote: post #3

russell wrote: post #2

I think so. I like programming, and I work for smaller companies which tend to have reasonable hours. Since the move from waterfall development to agile with releases ever week or two, death marches are a thing of the past. Or have I just had it lucky?

I can think of a lot of careers that are far more stressful, careers where real people are dependent on you doing your job fast and well. All we have to do is write code that does its job fast and well. That seems like a lot less stress to me.

Post by benologist » Sun, May 16, 2010, 2:55 AM UTC

devinj wrote: post #6

ajaimk wrote: post #4

Think you might have read it wrong. This is an article about High-Paying, Low-Stress Jobs which is what is says a CSE is.

It mentions game development. Game development has extremely low pay for the amount of stress it causes. I mean, everybody wants to be a game developer. Any prospective developer is screwed by supply and demand and a broken development model that allows for insane crunch time. Or have things changed?

Post by teaspoon » Sun, May 16, 2010, 3:10 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #7

devinj wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It mentions game development. Game development has extremely low pay for the amount of stress it causes. I mean, everybody wants to be a game developer. Any prospective developer is screwed by supply and demand and a broken development model that allows for insane crunch time. Or have things changed?

In some senses it has ... it's a lot more viable to be an indie game developer and work from home now - flash, facebook, iphone, android etc ... all have readily achievable barriers for entry.