There's a good aphorism: "People quit their managers, not their jobs." OTOH, I don't agree that "software is software everywhere you go". I've worked in specia

There's a good aphorism: "People quit their managers, not their jobs." OTOH, I don't agree that "software is software everywhere you go". I've worked in specialties like games / computer graphics, and that kind of work is inherently more interesting to me than for loops and sql statements style dev. This isn't to say that less sexy areas can't have really good tech. They just often don't, and the exceptions are usually the leaders.