This article could have been written at any time between 1998 and today.
My dream job is taking a 50% paycut to do literally anything else that requires 20% of the stress and gets me out of the house. Which could be damn near any other job. But I also like money so here I am
That tracks with my experience as that time period covers the start of my career.
That being said, it goes back even farther.
Not in IT. IT was a sleepy job where you used to babysit a mainframe or two that never broke. Shit hit the fan when PCs entered the fray.