I can't relate to "easy mode" past the layoffs. Everything has turned into a nightmare with employer expectations. Everyone I speak to feels the same. Things are not the way they are.

Absurd Schedules - Yes

Unrealistic Deadlines - Yes

Competing Colleageues -Yes

Toxic environment - Yes

Hard to switch - Yes

Outsourcing - Yes

Training your replacements -Yes

How is this easy mode? Mental labor can be as bad or even worse than Physical labor. Atleast you hit a brick wall with physical. Your enemy is inivisible when its mental.