I'm a bit odd, it would seem, in what I find enjoyable and not.
I've happy to take the tasks like SQL optimization which other would run away from, for instance, or the bash trickery mentioned elsewhere. People don't believe me, I've had looks of surprise and derision when “if you take on this role, you can give X to others and not have to worry about it” is responded to with “I like doing X, can't you ask one of the others to take on the other role and let me stay as I am?”…
It is increasingly looking like I have the choice: change to a role (automaton farmer) that I expect to hate, or leave dev, or maybe leave tech entirely and go wait tables or something. Those tables are starting to look very attractive.
I've happy to take the tasks like SQL optimization which other would run away from, for instance, or the bash trickery mentioned elsewhere. People don't believe me, I've had looks of surprise and derision when “if you take on this role, you can give X to others and not have to worry about it” is responded to with “I like doing X, can't you ask one of the others to take on the other role and let me stay as I am?”…
It is increasingly looking like I have the choice: change to a role (automaton farmer) that I expect to hate, or leave dev, or maybe leave tech entirely and go wait tables or something. Those tables are starting to look very attractive.