Apparently not Anne:
“…..But I’m not so good at blending into the traditional, primarily because I’m just not interested in doing that.
A further issue is that though I have the background to comment on enterprise software, it doesn’t excite me anymore. And every minute I spend looking at enterprise software is a minute I’m not looking at the latest in social media and social tools and new social forms on the web, my real area of interest…..”
For all that enterprise is big business and pays the bills, in many cases it’s not all that interesting. Once you’ve done a couple of integration jobs, you’ve done them all.
All of which leaves me wondering:
- Might there be some connection between repeated reinventions of the wheel and the run-of-the-mill sameness of most enterprise jobs?
- How much talent can one really expect to attract into enterprise?
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It depends on personal preference. Do you work to live, or live to work?
It seems reasonable that working on fun stuff is better than working on not-so-fun stuff. But working on fun stuff usually means working in not-so-fun conditions. Perfection once again eludes us.
I got tired of crashed schedules and crashed companies, of long hours in crummy facilities, of tyrannical (and occasionally borderline psychotic) management, and of keeping my life on hold. I’m too old for that nonsense; my life was passing me by. Enterprise development works for me.
As for talent, the folks that I work with are sharp and very experienced (maybe 20 years average). They know the business domain, and they know the software and associated human systems. I’m the newest guy on the team, only having been with the company for 6 years. The team members are all mature, with families and outside interests. We approach our jobs professionally, and at the end of the workday we leave the office behind and go do whatever it is that we REALLY enjoy doing.
It’s not for everyone. I suspect that there’s a fairly strong correlation between age and type of software development. We don’t have any young hotshots here, and those dazzling startups won’t hire mature developers.
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