Look I've done both factory work and programming and those same points in your brain that you use for programming are tickled when the very complicated machine your running malfunctions or breaks down and needs to be fixed immediately

I'm not sure you could be more condescending if you tried.

I mean, my healthcare job involves a lot of mental problem solving depending on the caseload I have that day.

Those jobs don’t use as much of your brain as software dev.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, dude