It might not seem likely but many days I find being a programmer stressful. I’m required to say “this thing will work” while knowing all the things that could go wrong. Knowing that I am fallible as all humans. Knowing that many parts of the infrastructure of technology are flaky. The things I make have to be ready for anything and I don’t always meet that burden. Sometimes it feels like the opposite is true – that everything I’ve made is broken and in need of repair. To be fair to myself though, I see most of the world as broken and in need of repair.
The stress gets to me. One transaction with a bug haunts me while thousands of others go smoothly. But that’s the cost of creating. You can never create something perfect, only the best you can do at that time.