For the most part, my job is just hard enough for me to be satisfied that I'm bringing value to my company for doing it, and just hard enough to force me into working every year to improve my skillset. 15 years ago there were periods where it was insanely difficult. Now, part of my job is teaching stuff to the folks who are much younger than I am and helping them get through the insanely difficult times. The problem is that over the years, my small 30 person startup company was acquired by a 4,000 person company, and then by a 200,000 person company, so now I'm just a corporate number like M2N6XE84O2. Still, I have a healthy salary, I work with smart people, work from home, largely set my own schedule, and have time to browse Poal during the day. Stacked up against my peers, I rank in the top 10%, which is really the only metric that matters in the short / medium term unless there is a huge shake-up. Pretty fucking nice compared to the gig some people have, I can't complain.