You think people can't take pride in taking a mess and making it look good? Or you think that only writing software is a noble enough work to take pride in, whereas those other occupations are all inferior?

It's true the many people in manual jobs do them out of need, not love. I can also find you a lot of software engineers who hate their jobs. And I can find a maid who loves what she does - it's easy to see when one goes above and beyond what was requested to make things neat and accurate.