alt Hacker News> but in our current society you won't get a job for being boring,
One can argue that every other field of engineering outside of Software Engineering, specializes in making complex things into boring things.
We are the unique snowflakes that take business use cases and build castle in the clouds that may or may not actually solve the business problem at hand.
We're everything from the Architect to the concrete guy,to the framer, carpenter, sparky, and plumber.
... and if it all falls down, don't blame us - you clicked the EULA /s