[theduemmer]

Oftentimes I resent going to work when I'm stuck in the office. I find that I have trouble focusing for eight hours, even when working on more mentally stimulating things. I am lucky to also have laid back and friendly relationships with many of my coworkers, and we share friendly banter throughout the day. This helps break up the monotony a lot.

What really keeps me interested in this job is the field work. Periodically I'll need to travel to the customer's facility, and that work is much more hands on. I'll often be "debugging" with a multimeter and screwdriver, on my knees or back in an electrical panel, or making code fixes that I can see affecting moving machine parts right in front of me.

It's one thing to work on something like traditional software which only directly changes stuff on a computer screen, but I get I get awfully bored and disinterested without some "real", physical results of my work. From what I've learned speaking to others and reading here, I'm not alone. To be honest I don't think I would last for very long at any job without being able to work with my hands.