You’ve just exactly paraphrased my gut feeling about (enterprise) software development. I think you’re spot on with both your definitions of back-end and front-end.

I guess I’ll start widening my search radius to include embedded systems and other fields (I’m getting excited for rust+wasm, but finding a job in that seems very unrealistic). Thanks for your input! Really helps bringing order in my own mind.

Thanks for taking the time to reply! Do you mean that programming languages as a metric for salary are not accurate? From what angle would you suggest I enter the job-market from? What would you do if you were to start over again?

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I feel what you’re saying about it being work and not a hobby. I guess I’m wondering to see a nice equilibrium can be found, but I’m afraid work can’t always be fun.

Could you describe in general terms what problems you commonly encounter? Do you still find it challenging/engaging?