[p5v]

They do. I’ve been teaching cross-career programming courses in the past, where most of my students had day jobs, some, involving hard physical work. They’d gladly swap all that for the opportunity to feed their families by writing code.

Just comes to show how the grass is always greener when you look on the other side.

That said, I also plan to retire up in the mountains soon, rather than keep feeding the machine.

[vasco]

The man knows he can be happy but he thinks his happiness depends on the outside rather than the inside.

If you have demons they will be there on the farm as well. How you see life is much more important to happiness than which job you have.

Many farmers struggle with alcoholism, beat their wives and hate their life. And many farmers are happy and at peace. Same with the programmers.