I'm pretty sure being a software developer is a higher status job than a bartender.
I'm pretty sure you are wrong, at least if we take ability to get laid as being an indicator of status.
I'm pretty sure you are wrong, at least if we take ability to get laid as being an indicator of status.
Bartenders have somewhat more access to sex. But they have less money than a software developer, and less potential for power (there's no ceiling on being a developer - you can run your own business, and potentially become extremely influential. If a bartender gains that much influence/power and owns their own establishment, it becomes disingenuous to continue to call them "a bartender").
Furthermore, this aspect of status is irrelevant when a person is in a long-term relationship, which at some point in their lives most people are.
So yes, a male prostitute with an attractive client base is a very high status man.
(It doesn't work for women, due to the key/lock principle: "A key which unlocks all locks is a very good key, but a lock which is opened by many keys is a very poor lock." Not politically correct, but true.)