My partner doesn't really 'get' what I do. They get frustrated when I'm on calls late, or stressed about a tricky demo. How do you explain the unique pressures of the SE role to those outside the industry?

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It's very similar for me, and I suspect many of us - esp in the SaaS industry. Honestly, I don't think my partner 'needs' to know everything, just enough to understand when I want to rant about coworkers lol

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Same here, she works in a low stress industry role so she doesn’t understand (or really she just doesn’t care about) the world of sacrificing for customers or doing services in general so it’s a point of tension when I have to move around our plans or tentative trips etc… she hates the “well I honestly don’t know if I’ll be free that week” the most lol.

Overall it just boils down to setting boundaries but as we all know sometimes those lines need to be blurred

Unfortunately she has realized that a low stress in industry career equals a low pay with long/limited promotion cycles… good thing she has a stressed out nerd who panders to customers!😂

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Because a good demo is more than just a show. It’s the perfect little package that lets the customer know that “we respect your time and understand what you need from us to succeed. Here’s exactly how this will work for you if you spend millions of dollars with us and feel great about it”

It’s a lot like when she wants to go out to eat. When you ask what she would like, she says, “I don’t know”.

That process of figuring out what she wants to eat, you do that, but for software companies.

She’ll understand the stress, long nights and good pay then.

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