>They will probably immediately dismiss you. As soon as they ask me my occupation and I say I am a software developer they dismiss me. Every time so far. Each legal team gets a certain number of dismissals they don't have to explain. Lawyers want pliable jurors, not logical thinkers.

I've heard it from a different perspective, as more of an urban legend during my college sophomore year. Someone said that in the UK one can't be a juror if doing maths more than 10 years. One guy asked why, and everyone concluded that he'd be excluded right away.

Few years later I've heard the same story about programmers from the big iron machines, that they either go bananas after about 10 years of doing it, or change their occupation (and no, I didn't mean "they go occupy a different country", and I didn't mean "they choose to be occupied by Mongols now instead of Huns" either).

Since the first story was about 30 years ago, and your experience confirms it, it's now officially losing the status of urban legend, as far as I'm concerned.