[avereveard]

Well user facing app are about exchanging data with users, so it's hard to escape it.

Data scientist and machine learning experts get to have more fun with data in general.

To escape data itself is even harder tho. High performance computing, iot and large scale networking touches data, but they have niches more concerned with moving it fast and reliably than actually interact with the content.

Eventually it all comes down to moving bytes around tho. Data is how computer founds mentally operate. In the byte space there's work to be had in encryption and compression, but those are quite saturated topics.