I constantly have this feeling: software development as a job, relative to the amount it pays, just feels ridiculously easy most of the time. Churn out some API that takes data from one place and exposes it in a slightly different form over here, write some unit tests and docs, done.
Then other days I'll spend an hour doing nothing but thinking, staring out the window, trying to figure out the best way to do solve some complex multi-threaded issue, before writing any code, and I feel like a real engineer again.
Then other days I'll spend an hour doing nothing but thinking, staring out the window, trying to figure out the best way to do solve some complex multi-threaded issue, before writing any code, and I feel like a real engineer again.