I dunno if I agree with this. I feel like I've got a nice combination of the three.

I make median wages for "lead full stack developer" role at a company with no central office (I live in the middle of nowhere.) I also have a fairly good amount of autonomy and authority, and do work that borders on "fun" more often than not.

Maybe you could say that I have no "status" compared to some pedigreed, Fortune 500 C-suite type but that doesn't really interest me so much. I come from a working class Appalachian family so I have a pretty low bar of "status" which really just means "professional respect" to me.

>> > high paying, high status, highly stimulating work

> I make median wages

So it's not "high paying".

> do work that borders on "fun" more often than not

That sound a quite far from "highly stimulating work".

> I have a pretty low bar of "status"

...you made my point.

>> So it's not "high paying".

Median full-stack developer making median city wages in the country? Okay.

>> That sound a quite far from "highly stimulating work".

No it doesn't.

>> I have a pretty low bar of "status"

Yeah well, what's yours?

Most people also wouldn’t consider standard full stack development highly stimulating