I remember a period when I was transitioning from my development role to a hitherto unknown role within the company. Granted my development role involved basica

I remember a period when I was transitioning from my development role to a hitherto unknown role within the company. Granted my development role involved basically 50% business analyst work + 50% development (which mainly consisted of a Shell/Perl/SQL etc). During that period all could do basically surf news sites until someone needed help in some large volume data processing. Just the opportunity to write some scripts again was such an uplifting feeling - at the end of the day, I felt that I got something done (and that was independent of the resulting appreciation).