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Re:Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work by mlboss on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:14PM (#26864426)
Not sure why you were downvoted. I totally agree with you.

One of my past manager told me that the trick of making a boring job interesting is to introduce a layer of abstraction to the task.

For example, if you have to right a lot of boiler plate code then write a code generator.

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Re:Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work by pschuegr on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:18PM (#26868088)
"The trick to making a boring job interesting is to make it more complicated". This is IMO terrible advice for building software.

Edit: your example seems like a good instance of applying this _well_, but I would not tell anybody this as general advice.

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