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by digitalmaster 2103 days ago
Oh interesting, I guess I've always thought about problem solving and creativity as being one and the same. Mind expanding on this a bit?
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Ah I should have been more specific. For some context, I learned software development on the job and later studied Human-Computer Interaction. I want to be at the intersection of software and design.

Software Engineering at Plenty involved a lot of creative problem solving. But I wanted to work on visually creative projects. Some of my initial projects at Plenty did involve interactive UIs, but as I gained better understanding of our stack, I was required to do a lot more back-end work which wasn’t very exciting to me.

Ah! Got it! That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!
Not OP but I feel like I can an example here.

The workplace I am at solves a very prevalent set of problems For retail industry. But there is nothing creative about it. (Of course, there are some creative workarounds but it wouldn’t be characterized as creative work)