9 - I’ve been doing this so long and this gets harder and harder. I’m at the point I’m so severely burned out I’m planning early retirement to get out of this industry all together. For me what makes it even more worse is I didn’t get into this field until I was in my 30s. Beforehand I drove a forklift in a warehouse, I was in the military, then an electrician, and finally a electronics repair tech afterwards. Those fields the disconnect was passive, didn’t even have to think about it. Software you have to jump through mental hoops to remove yourself and that’s just as exhausting as the job itself. I dream of a job working at a garden center or maybe driving a forklift again. This field sucks.