The Great Career Escape Paradox

The grass is always greener on the other side of the keyboard! While baristas are grinding through coding bootcamps hoping for six-figure salaries and remote work, developers are fantasizing about escaping Jira tickets to craft perfect lattes in their hipster cafés.

It's the ultimate career paradox - everyone wants to escape what they're doing. Baristas think coding is glamorous freedom, while developers know the truth: trading one type of customer ticket for another, just with more Stack Overflow searches and existential dread.

Somewhere, a developer is writing a coffee shop management app while daydreaming about using it in their future café. The irony is delicious - almost as delicious as that fantasy flat white they'll never get to make.