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Re:The key to loving your job in the age of burnout by maxxxxx on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:10AM (#19624244)
You have a point there. I am mechanical engineer now doing software and I really miss seeing and touching(!) the final product. When I did commercial software at least you saw something on the screen quickly. Now I am in medical devices and I almost never get to witness or experience the results of my work. When you are done with something it still takes often years to get it to market. Add to that all the reporting requirements and the actual work is totally detached from the product.

I definitely miss direct contact with the results of my work.

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Re:The key to loving your job in the age of burnout by jshowa3 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:47AM (#19624540)
I'd suggest automotive. I get to build software and see how it directly effects hardware for testers that we build. That's incredibly satisfying to me. And you don't have to wait 20 years to pass FDA inspection.
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