Ask HN: Is an interdisciplinary career worth it?

Warning: typed on my phone. I graduated my CS master. I like programming but don’t love it. I get a bit scared to think about that I have to do it for 8 hours per day like I am doing now at a startup. The stress is insanely high and my performance is clearly affected when I sleep terrible (which I sometimes do) at this place. Also: the field of programming is either relatively easy but overbearing managers/stress (CRUD) or hard (Dijkstra’s algorithm) or insanely hard (instrumenting a binary programs and applying a symbolic execution on it and an SMT solver to crack a program — see https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/Triton). Moreover, I think it is cognitively a tougher job to do than say UX design or marketing. These disciplines also interest me despite having almost no formal training in them from an educational institution (UX - 3 months, marketing - 2 months). Relatively successful people that I know say a couple of things: 1. The bulls have raged there shoul