> My long answer is that the job is - despite the money - quite "blue collar". I guess an effect of it becoming mainstream among other things. A vast majority of programmers' jobs are connecting various types of tubes together and endlesly discussing minor variations of the same basic themes. You will find yourself (re-)implementing CRUD interfaces, auth flows, database models.

The "blue collar" description does not fit well though, as most other high-skill, white-collar jobs (lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers) are similarly repetetive and mundane. Typically, the company hires experts to do the same thing over and over again. You can escape that by going into research position (but even they can get quite mundane and boring, in current publish-or-perish culture) or by changing career fields every couple of years (not really realistic for most people).