Despise

I enjoy being a regular SE. I love having a simple, unassuming, position where I just put in my 9 to 5 monday through friday fixing shit or adding simple brain-dead features, while listening to some Pandora. I love the simple joy doing my simple work of problem solving well, and then im out by 5pm so I can get back to my gardening, or cooking dinner, or enjoying some TV / gaming time. I have zero desire to be part of some new thing, app, feature, etc, though that doesnt seem to stop my fellow colleagues and bosses from constantly trying. And in the middle of all this, I recently realized why I despise the "tech" culture. I hate interacting with my colleagues and coworkers, and the progressive culture surrounding software development. It seems normal for everyone to be this arrogant elitist hyper competitive know-it-alls. And they sure are hell bent on playing this "one-up-man-ship" game constantly. What spawned this rant was this past week, some little punk got annoyed with me because my pull request got approved, while his got rejected, on a project he and I were working on. He wanted to escalate the issue and argue with our boss (and his boss's boss) why his shouldve been accepted (the senior devs explained why it was rejected in the notes), and wrote this long email to me basing his whole reasoning on "...everything is so wrong with the company when they can accept a [my] request from some GED having college dropout coder wannabe...". I dont know why, but ever since that email (he apologized later), its been festering in my mind ever since. And its made me realize how much I can not stand developers, and the tech culture in general. I love what I do, I enjoy it. The things I dont enjoy... Are other software developers