Actually BUILDING something that you could point to and say - depending on organization size - I WROTE THAT and it's being used daily across the company and in some case globally. I wrote an entire sub-system that when out-sourced to IBM, was billed in the contract for $500,000 a year to maintain. I was STILL at the company and not making even 20 percent of what IBM wanted. When IBM took over I moved on from development to Unix systems and architecture - BEST decision I made. So, compare being a craftsperson then to a factory assembly-line-worker today.