[Jack000]

Not sure if everyone feels this way, but I kind of hate "software engineering". I feel like once the logic or core principle is figured out, the rest is just the chore of implementation. It's like the fun part is visualizing how everything should work in your head, then you have to do the boring part of typing it all out, debugging, dealing with stakeholders etc which forms 90% of "software engineering".

I'm a lot happier now that I can outsource some of that work to other people. Maybe in the future some of the boring 90% can be automated away, but the human factors remain.

[burntoutfire]

Try being an analyst or architect. This way, the "boring" work gets done by coders, while you define the work, figure out big problems etc. It can be quite fun.