Comment by tgv

There are quite a few topics in CS I like, from compiler construction to robotics. That was the "hacker tech" for me. For a long time, I managed to have work with an interesting angle, but slowly it got to the point where I'm solving a fucking npm caching problem that caused a junior headaches, moving a server with an EOL OS with minimal service interruption, looking for another 2FA mechanism, and getting older tools to play well with mobile. None of it is interesting, and it takes a lot of time.

Not that it used to be better: many of my fellow students ended up in business administration. Some might even be architecturing COBOL systems on an IBM mainframe.