20+ years in - I'm a data plumber. A plumber might be able to go home and build some sort of interesting miniature steam engine, but his work week is connectin

20+ years in - I'm a data plumber. A plumber might be able to go home and build some sort of interesting miniature steam engine, but his work week is connecting pipes. Mine's the the same, just strings and numbers instead of water. I go home and do some interesting things, but I don't expect I'll ever do such things at work. Some people are, but not the majority. The colourful unicorns and thrilling hackathons and exciting conferences are all just a mix of marketing and untainted youth. Sooner or later they'll find they've been crudding for 20 years, and strangely the various ways of crudding are no longer sufficiently novel to make crudding interesting. I try to think of how bored my dentist must be.