Do you think your job is fun?

So many boring jobs out there.. Examples:
- .Net services for some financial institution
- Java business applications for invoice record processing

Yeah, bore me more. Thanks. I prefer something more fun.

One of my Friends (or Seniors) writes .Net code to collect, and aggregate metrics on Azure. Not so boring

@asgs Falling asleep here.

@CaptainRant well, their job description doesn't sound exciting. Their job is critical to running the Azure infra and alerting the systems should an action be taken. More like SRE but a good amount of Architecturing and implementing required to keep the system running and scaling as required

It is much better than a simple REST service application doing CRUD work

Rails dev for fintech.

Ruby makes everything easy. Fintech makes everything boring. Coworkers make everything complicated and smelly as hell. And the endless meetings drain my will to live. As does their hellish politics.

@asgs Do they work *for* MSFT on Azure, or just a company that uses Azure? Cause if they work on Azure's logging infrastructure....I got a few bones to pick with your friend..

/s, kind of lol

@Root I have never seen corporate environment summarized so concisely.

++well done;

Native app dev. Awesome and never gets boring.

I enjoy mine.

I'm in supply chain. We're writing a service at the moment that takes a list of SKUs required on set days (and a big list, I'm talking many GB here), and spits out how we want those SKUs put on pallets, how we want those pallets loaded onto lorries, and when we want those lorries to arrive at various depots. It's really interesting algorithmically, we have a whole bunch of constraints we have to work against, and we have near complete freedom in using whatever we want as we're designing it pretty much from the ground up.

This is why I left academia. Get to solve all the interesting practical problems without publication targets going on.

Not the highest paid work, but it's still decently paid, quite laid back most of the time and highly interesting.

@ComputerToucher for MSFT, of course

It's fun thanks to my coworkers and a decently built codebase. The system itself is not particularly special.