It sucks sometimes, imho. I think there's a middle ground between the situation he describes and being on the bleeding edge. Much of my work is as tedious as he

It sucks sometimes, imho. I think there's a middle ground between the situation he describes and being on the bleeding edge. Much of my work is as tedious as he describes, but I also get a certain satisfaction out of refactoring legacy code and improving it. And on occasion -- if you stay alert -- you can find interesting & challenging small projects that improve the business or make life easier for other developers. Sometimes that might just be a shell script or something. Small victories, I suppose...