I'm supposed to be a software engineer... (Score 1)

I think the most difficult thing for me is that I don't do software engineering. I'm a zombie scrambling to meet short deadlines who ends up skimping on design and documentation and produces a half and half product--a half crap/half mediocre. To the uninitiated my code appears well designed, but I know the truth. In my world, quality is a thin veneer covering up the graves of many skeletons.

So when my code goes live, I spend a few weeks going crazy fixing all the bugs. I have the darkened eyes and balding patch to prove it.

After several years of this, I've grown to resent development. These days, I find it difficult to get interested in a project because I know it'll just be another round of the same-old-same-old.

I will switch careers some day, when I can figure out what I want to do. I know whatever it turns out to be, it'll be a job that produces something from nothing, instead of producing nothing from nothing.