I am just an amateur, but gosh I love doing ETL. There's something about the specification of the data you're supposed to be getting, and then the harsh realit

I am just an amateur, but gosh I love doing ETL. There's something about the specification of the data you're supposed to be getting, and then the harsh reality of the filthy trash you will actually be fed, and making something that can carefully examine each of the assumptions in the spec to test for how it won't go right, making tests for things that will, you are told, "never happen" (only to get an email from your program three years later that this has, in fact, happened), interpolating data where you can, and in general making a "simple load process" into one of those grinders people can feed cows and tungsten carbide rods into. I feel like Data mentioning that he just ... loves scanning for life forms.