I total agree with you here. I was going to post almost the same thing. "The problem with software development is that most people just take that 95% for gran

I total agree with you here. I was going to post almost the same thing. "The problem with software development is that most people just take that 95% for granted, get complacent and think that the 95% of trivial work is the job and that they don't need to be prepared for the remaining 5%." I have found that many developers just aren't capable of the remaining 5% and companies that hire need you for the 95% hope you can handle the rest. I'm currently a consultant for a pretty large company and I deal with their back-end software systems. Most of my job is mundane and easy. However, there have been on-fire issues where if I wasn't good at my job, the company would have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.