The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:12AM from the weeping-anecdotes dept.

manavendra asks: "I'm currently working for a solution provider for telcos, and as part of product migration the entire API has to be 'internationalized'. Owing to a legacy architecture, most (if not all) application logic is still embedded in PL/SQL stored packages. My job: find hard coded strings, and replace with calls to the globalization API. Yes there is a script written to handle most tasks, but its quite primitive (not to mention fears of automating 'too much'). Boredom is at all time high. Have tried all means of whittling away the time, and hence this question to other Slashdot users: What's the worst ever job you had to do in the name of 'software development' (or as a software developer)?"

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Re:The worst job you can have by ItMustBeEsoteric · 2004-03-31 09:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

This is a very good point. For example I have a friend (who is actually an engineer) who, if he could do ANYTHING he wanted to, would work on old cars all day.

This would make me go insane, I HATE even changing my oil.

To each their own.
Sad but true... by KillerHamster · 2004-03-31 09:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

I've never had a development job, you insensitive clod!

(And at the moment, it doesn't look like I'll ever have one.)