> Programming gets very boring sometimes Not to be contrary, but I've never found _programming_ to be boring. What I've found to be the biggest frustration of

> Programming gets very boring sometimes Not to be contrary, but I've never found _programming_ to be boring. What I've found to be the biggest frustration of working as a professional programmer (25 years now) is the expectation that programming, shared by apparently everybody who doesn't program for a living, that programming is easy as long as you've read the "learn programming in 24 hours for dummies" book and put ridiculously unrealistic expectations on anybody who calls themselves a programmer of any level of experience. And, in my experience, protecting that what they're asking for is unreasonable is a waste of breath - "I can't deliver that in that time frame because I still don't even know what it is" is always met with "you have to, figure it out, lowly programmer".