Nice post. My advice for any college grad is to stay away form this stinky industry. I wasted two years out of college on billing systems with 1,500 Oracle tabl

Nice post. My advice for any college grad is to stay away form this stinky industry. I wasted two years out of college on billing systems with 1,500 Oracle tables with endless dumbest PL/SQL data-pumping procedures and dumbest data entry client software written in VB. And nobody really cared about quality or efficiency. No algorithms, nothing even remotely interesting from a technical standpoint. Only schedule, "feature list" and annoying salespeople who kept selling features we did not even built. I hear that VB got replaced by Java now. And that is true: to keep those piles of shitty code running clients had to buy "service contracts". We had a guy whose full time job was to write report generators. Ugghh... It's not "software". It's "software porn".