I switched to being a data engineer and have found it remarkably refreshing. Sure, it’s “just” a combination of DBA, ETL engineer, devops, and glue coding, but

I switched to being a data engineer and have found it remarkably refreshing. Sure, it’s “just” a combination of DBA, ETL engineer, devops, and glue coding, but the data world is 15-20 years behind programming practices and it’s fun to see unit testing and version control being applied to data, as well as the rusty tooling getting some new love. Especially with dbt, a data transform tool that’s fun to use. I generally agree with your downbeat view on things, but data engineering has its own problems that have given me a renewed interest in tech. For now!