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I work for the government making programs to help people comply with our regulations and we are getting to the point where the reg writers can write regs faster

I work for the government making programs to help people comply with our regulations and we are getting to the point where the reg writers can write regs faster than we can make user interfaces for them (+ support all the existing stuff we have). Difficult to sell management on more reg writers implying a need to hire more programmers, at least until someone sues us for failing to comply with our own regulations... There is no doubt that compliance is fertile, if boring.

tmaly 10y ago
I think it can also be exciting. In some cases the volume of requests requires you to research a better set of solutions. I am given some leeway to come up with creative solutions that can scale. Also since compliance is so broad, you get to work on many different aspects within a company. You can really improve the lives of the people in the company or institution by just coming up with an automated way to handle some of the mundane tasks involved in compliance.