In my experience the story doesn’t end with them being fired it ends with them yelling at me for not anticipating what they wanted, getting backcharges because why not, and years of fights inside and outside of work.

But hey why shouldn’t we all just do our work professionally and go home?

Things no one has ever said.

Even if they had robots they would still need to be tooled ;)

This would have been a welcome addition to the book.

You might like it if you enjoy thinking about how all the people who don’t appreciate you would be screwed if you just left.

I see you have read my dream journal.

You really can’t win. If you people are dependent on you it means more work if/when you take time off. If people don’t need you, they don’t need you and this world is just that colder.

And that all my architect friends had terrible egos.

Not as bad as engineers but in my experience yes. Which is fine, it would be nice to have a few unique buildings to look at.