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> no intellectual challenge If it's not intellectually challenging, you're not working on interesting systems. If you have to find interesting tools to find in
by Jtsummers 3y ago
> no intellectual challenge
If it's not intellectually challenging, you're not working on interesting systems. If you have to find interesting tools to find intellectual stimulation, consider a different system to work on.
As an example, I got to learn astrodynamics as part of my last job. Maybe not intellectually stimulating to everyone, but it didn't require me to learn the latest tooling just an interesting area of math and physics. The tooling and the language for the software wasn't that interesting, but that's fine.
- feoren 3y agoI use boring architectures: JS/TS hitting a single C# server hitting a single database. I have had to (and gotten the opportunity to) learn about: - Environmental chemistry - Mass balance simulations - Wastewater treatment processes - Geotechnical engineering - Ecology - Mass transit systems And quite a bit more. I could not agree with you more. Even without the broad range of interesting subject matter, there's no end to intellectually stimulating work simply trying to architect a system well.