> I guess most of the HN crowd has very little exposure to the technologies in this field and most people probably consider this field uncool. I'm always remin

> I guess most of the HN crowd has very little exposure to the technologies in this field and most people probably consider this field uncool. I'm always reminded of a conversation with a fresh Google hire wherein she said "How can you stand working at a utility, don't you want your work to affect PEOPLE?", as if utilities don't have hundreds of thousands or millions of customers that we provide an essential service to.