"It is still possible to take pride in your craft while writing business applications"
Here! Here! I'm an Oracle DBA/database designer by trade. I work with boring things - billing systems, data warehouses etc. Where do I get my job satisfaction? Taking poorly peforming databases and tuning them till they purr. Discovering a cool CPAN module that will make everyone's life easier. Even things that no one else will notice - rewriting my old Perl code, because I've discovered better ways to do it from Perlmonks, other web pages, books or whatever. If there's a new technical challenge every now and then, I don't really care what the end-business is, as long as I can deliver solutions that make my customers happy, and keep my brain from atrophying...
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