My current job is to write software for those huge assembly-line robots you see in factories. I entered this field (taking a significant pay cut) thinking that

My current job is to write software for those huge assembly-line robots you see in factories. I entered this field (taking a significant pay cut) thinking that maybe I could put some of my algorithmic knowledge to use. Turns out 90% of my job is rote logic - rewriting process flows and the like. Nothing too smart. Really boring tedious stuff. The 'cleverest' task I did was implementing a Kalman filter to smooth over some encoder readings. That was the most fun I had in a while.