> When I boil it down, it seems a great deal of the stuff I do is taking data from "here", adding and removing and sometimes transforming fields, so that it can

> When I boil it down, it seems a great deal of the stuff I do is taking data from "here", adding and removing and sometimes transforming fields, so that it can be put "there". Try looking at it differently. When you take data for a database and present it to the user, you aren't moving data from here to there but you are creating information. This is why we call it IT not DT. Creating information for people is a much more interesting problem and you have to know a lot more about their workflow and requirements.