There's a reason there ain't going to be a reality show following the day to day travails of an engineer.
- Look, he stares at the code on the screen
- He hits F5 to advance the debugger.
- He stares at the screen
- He stares at the screen
- He gulps down more coffee
- Oohhh, action, he rolled the mouse wheel and pressed F10
- He stares at the screen
- Another Teams meeting
The hordes of freaky supermodels throwing themselves at you make up for it.
Jokes aside, it's pretty ok when you get to do what you like and is good at. Technical stuff rather than people and management stuff. These pay better though, but it is what it is.
I can brag about being groped by two consecutive HR managers at my previous job, so there's that.