Software developer tops list of U.S. News and World Report's annual best jobs

Like, professional programmers as a class are winners of a fairly strict meritocratic tournament - either you can code to an acceptable standard, or you can't. Of course it's good to be employed in a manner that's after winning a difficult competition. Like, there's a difference between how good it is to be an NBA player and how good of a decision it is to try to become an NBA player.

Money for nothing and the clicks for free...

This sounds like more propaganda from the tech industry to saturate the workforce with more hopefuls to drive up the talent pool and drive down employee costs. Don’t get me wrong there are some slacker software jobs out there, but if you want “software money” then in my experience it’s usually not a cake walk. We’re talking putting in many extra hours, way too many meetings and being “on call” a lot of weekends. Maybe I’ve just been working in the wrong places...

That profession historically is also toward the top of suicide lists.