I said nothing demeaning about life satisfaction or mental health or work/life balance as goals. People who emphasize life satisfaction are almost definitionally living a “better” life in some sense.
I am rather impatient, as you can likely tell, with people’s endless efforts to conflate that with elite technical ability, either individually or in a team.
I ground it out over decades with no education and for at least one of those decades, no mentorship.
I’m not advising anyone to take that path, but I’ll always get grumpy if someone triple equals that with learning some scripting language and being good at GitHub.
I am rather impatient, as you can likely tell, with people’s endless efforts to conflate that with elite technical ability, either individually or in a team.
I ground it out over decades with no education and for at least one of those decades, no mentorship.
I’m not advising anyone to take that path, but I’ll always get grumpy if someone triple equals that with learning some scripting language and being good at GitHub.