[rakejake]

I specialized in ML in my Masters, and I was surprised by how boring my first job in ML was. Sure, the results are "sexy" and the job itself is apparently much sought after, but building the model was frustrating. Like you say, the interesting part for me was what people would think of as boring - getting the data cleaned up and correctly aligned, the scaling work, latency issues with serving the model etc. I knew then that ML engineering was not for me.