best most priveleged job? no social status, pay below marketing and sales execs, relearning tools every year, assumed to be replaceable, leetcode BS every year, doing incredibly hard work with little credit, the list goes on. engineering only pays off if you are a founder and manage to sell the company for a lot of money, which is a gamble. also, no protections such as unions as engineering is a white collar job. sure, there are worse jobs. but claiming that this sort of work is the best job ever is ridiculous.