Haha, I count this as a very good parallelism, as I had close connection to construction workers. Seweage pipelining can be done by multiple ways. There are ones which will clog in shorter or longer time. There are ones which made up by more parts than really needed. And there are perfectly goods which also obey all standards. Will the third one write a blog as "how to great plumbing"? Or just will say: "I know plumbing"?

or "Im busy plumbing if I am not wasting time on Plumber News"

I am using the plumber/plumbing analogy all the time.

- Can x be done ?

- Yeah, it's like plumbing and data travel through pipes. Theoretically, anything is possible. But some plumbing require time/money/expertise we don't have.

I prefer this analogy to the first one I came up with at the beginning: we are basically just form builders automating if the form is filled correctly. Way less sexy than the plumbing analogy.

As a project manager (whatever it means) in a big organization with 1000 apps, i often describe myself as a plumber at least the 1st sentence: what do you do? IT plumber in a big corpo

As a data engineer I often describe my job as a glorified plumber.

Agree, even though many consider coding is a craftsmanship, it's not supposed to be seen as art