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I don't know, my partner works at a civil engineering firm and the day to day work there sounds pretty similar to what I do as a software dev. Sometimes they have to do complicated calculations and research, but by far most of the work is copying templates and tweaking them as needed.

The hardest part of most projects is taking unrealistic and ever changing client demands and trying to turn them into something that will actually work in reality; a process which is probably all too familiar to many software developers.