> Do people in other professions have the same issues?
Yes, any domain which doesn't produce a product, conceivable to a layman in one way or another. You need conceivable results to be understood by managers and other people. For example domains producing tangible results are doing much better.
I used to be electronic engineer, and it was way simpler to explain laymen around you that you actually doing something. Blueprints, boards are conceivable more or less. Lines of code are not, especially hard to explain that less lines of code is better, since laymen don't see architecture, they see just text.
Yes, any domain which doesn't produce a product, conceivable to a layman in one way or another. You need conceivable results to be understood by managers and other people. For example domains producing tangible results are doing much better.
I used to be electronic engineer, and it was way simpler to explain laymen around you that you actually doing something. Blueprints, boards are conceivable more or less. Lines of code are not, especially hard to explain that less lines of code is better, since laymen don't see architecture, they see just text.