It's amusing, the foolishness of people who crap on "lesser jobs." These are the same fools who then throw a fit when everyone listens to them, and nobody sees the point in taking their trash, or serving them their daily ultragrandelatte / whoppermac burger / whatever else.

It's all propaganda to drive down and excuse low wages.

About overrated cool/sexy jobs:

That's how I feel about infosec. I still often think "That'd be so awesome, knowing computer sorcery and being a cyber ninja, and knowing my stuff was solid because I could verify it myself. Maybe stopping bad guys from turning vulnerable machines into terrorist-funding cryptominers, exposing spyware..."

But the main earning opportunities seem to be based around checking boxes to secure evil corpos and being on call 24/7 because the ShiJinPing bot swarm got riled up again.

Nah I'm good. I'd rather just learn it as a hobby.

Once computers got all suit-and-tie everything got a lot less interesting.

It's a shame the "eyes" countries are so gulag-happy. Meaningful hacktivism would sound so rewarding. Bet those folks are all in suits and ties now too. :(