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Ask HN: Does a CS degree increase or decrease job satisfaction as a programmer?
Maybe people without a university degree would be more satisfied with their software engineering job?
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Just from the devs I've known personally (so hardly representative of the whole dev population), there appears to be a bit of a correlation with people not having degrees being more likely to be happy with their line of work.
This is entirely speculation, but I think it may be because people without degrees are more likely to have chosen the field because they love doing it, and people with degrees are more likely to have chosen the field because it pays well.
I think the opposite would be just as likely, though.
During the mid-2000s ZIRP, the tech industry was flush with cash and hurling high six-figure salaries at anyone who could use a flexbox in CSS.
With the promise of all this money and high demand came a massive proliferation of coding bootcamps promising to land you one of these lucrative jobs.
That drew in lots of people with zero genuine interest in computer science.
Anecdotally, everyone in my graduating class majoring in compsci seemed to love the field, but this was back when software dev positions were a lot closer in salary to regular engineering (electrical and mechanical).
It's likely subjective.