Why is it that software engineers seem to get so little respect?
This does not apply to everyone but I have experienced this.

They get just as much respect as everybody.

@Pyjong , that implies that no one gets enough respect that they deserve.

@AngryDev9981 Erm no. That was supposed to deny your premise. sry..

Is this about titles?

@Demolishun not titles. It is all about fair play and back biting and office politics.

@molaram , non technical managers think that writing code is easy as a piece of cake.

@AngryDev9981 Ah, gotcha, I have been lucky to not experience that bias. I feel for you.

Y2K. That massive money grab fundamentally changed the relationship between technical people and business people.

@Pyjong said it all. Prople are cunts in general.

"most people", which is your average mom and pop, have no real comprehension what a software engineer does in the first place, not like doctors, electricians, authors, musicians and have have ye.

It needs to have a kind of place in society without having to piggyback on being an engineer (I am certainly not an engineer) or going the consultant way, even though you may not be a consultant.

@Ubbe So... You're saying there's a correlation between pushing button and getting respect? Time to sit on a keyboard!

@Ubbe I am what people call: "lucky" *shrugs*

@Ubbe , there are people in IT firms who think typing is programming. but they can't type it themselves.