Amen. Anyone who thinks their gig has more “prestige” than anyone else needs to get over themselves and look in the mirror for a little bit.
The stuff that makes this job great happens when you aren’t doing it. I would trade 30 hours at my house for 30 hours in *insert European city here* but that’s just me. I go to work to make money so I can spend time at home and get my kids some of the things I wasn’t able to have growing up.
You are a cog in a soulless machine that will drop you in a hot second if it could. You are a cost on a spreadsheet.