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It might pay the bills, but you'll work on exactly ZERO new developments.

You won't be able to work with Web/Embedded/Mobile. Your developments will probably be "new report at bank" or "fixing new bugs"

So, unless you learn other stuff, it might get you the money but it's probably something veery boring (even more boring than your corporate CRUD app)

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Most jobs in Web and Mobile are fairly boring. People program Wordpress Templates for a living. Fix bugs on rails installations. Run 400 Servers that run a shop. The next app that displays data from an API. Actually, very few jobs are "exciting" as in "really new development or research that was never done before".

Boring is where the money is, because no one will do the boring work for free.

I'd pick fairly boring work with a nice team over interesting work with assholes every single time. Some people also prefer boring as in "uneventful" since they have kids, family, other obligations and value having a 9-5 job over interesting. There's a lot of reasons to pick boring. I can have exciting hobbies after work.

Agreed. I think we tend to underestimate how highly people value interesting work. If you want to do work that most people would rate as interesting, you're going to pay a very high "passion tax" for the privilege. People will put up with more competition for fewer openings, drastically lower salaries, longer hours, worse work environments, and meaner coworkers, in order to do work they feel "passionate" about.

I have interesting hobbies and am happy to do boring work in exchange for the better pay and working conditions and more free time to spend on my hobbies and family.

> If you want to do work that most people would rate as interesting, you're going to pay a very high "passion tax" for the privilege.

True. See game companies

Of course there's a whole spectrum between "boring" and "cool", and even games have some very boring parts

I will do boring if the pay is high enough. Learning a new JS framework every 6 months can get kind of tiresome as well I imagine.

I work with web/mobile. My job is still very boring at least 75% of the time. E-mails, admin, client contact, delegation of jobs to staff I'm responsible for - and that's before we get to the boring parts of the job itself. We can't all be working on brilliantly exciting stuff all the time.

This is not necessarily true. I work at a mainframe shop and we have a lot of very interesting projects to work on.

Though, my experience may be unique since we're an ISV, not a business apps shop.

What is so bad about boring? Boring means low stress, and easy work. As long as your life outside of work is fulfilling, there is nothing wrong with doing a boring job for good money.

Boredom is a major cause of stress. Maybe this discussion would go somewhere if the terms were actually defined?

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