I can definitely relate. The disparity between the enjoyment of the craft and the experience of applying it is particularly vast in this industry. My recent e

I can definitely relate. The disparity between the enjoyment of the craft and the experience of applying it is particularly vast in this industry. My recent experience is probably a fluke and would therefore be unhelpful, but I finally optimized job selection exclusively by pay rate, accepting a role in a tech stack I have no experience with and honestly, very little interest in, and yet the engineering culture and overall experience are turning out to be the best in my recent memory.