[rleigh]

This is one of the reasons I moved into embedded software. It's much more satisfying for me personally. But even when I worked on business software, it was nice once in a while to go out an meet the actual customers who used the stuff day-in day-out. I learned a lot from them, and took it back to improve things, and that made it quite a bit more interesting, knowing I was addressing real usability and functionality problems which would improve their job.