No, I'm willing to bet you have plenty of energy. Society has simply deemed that all of it must be spent on being productive for the sake of everyone except yourself.

"If your employees have energy to spend on meaningful activities during their own time, you're leaving money on the table. Squeeze them harder while they are on the clock."

If you have time then try working out and doing sports. It sounds asinine, but I've found that exerting yourself increases your levels of energy in the long term. Even something small, a little bit at a time will be greatly beneficial. Also try doing it with someone else and try having an active social life that will motivate you to go out of the house and stop spending all the evening alone on the couch watching YouTube (which is really detrimental, ask me how I know it).

Like the Romans said "mens sana in corpore sano" (you need a healthy body to have a healthy mind)

I used to think that. Unfortunately, you'll be proven wrong with time. I really did have a lot of energy, when I was younger. I'm now having to be ever smarter with what I have, just to tread water.

Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.

If I'm a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I'm a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone's money and is essential to the entire nation, I'm paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.

If I'm a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.

(Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)

The post literally above this one is about a manufacturing job with shit hours and pay and I work a 8-4 (sometimes longer) but im paid abnormally high (we start new devs at 70k and average dev is six figures).

But the other stuff like free time can absolutely suffer as even at the senior level, I'm taking so many courses and outside education to stay relevant.

My wife and I make a decent income between the two of us, and we nearly froze to death winter before last! £500pcm+ to keep our house at like 10°C, absolute madness.

Also their careers grow faster and steadier even in a recession, changing jobs is easier and comes with a significant pay raise each time, and they mostly don't have to deal with costumers.

Yes but they live in places that cost a ton, and then get fired with no notice.

Depends on Major, I have more time as a Worker than I did in College. More energy, too.

you haven’t met me yet

I think it's Europeans. I've heard that many European countries don't have high pay for devs.

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✔️reduced interaction with people (mostly)
✔️work with systems with well defined rules