I consider myself an engineer more than a “coder” - I solve problems. I don’t really care as much how. I do not enjoy code for its own sake, I enjoy a problem well-solved.

Software engineering turns out to be a way to solve problems and get paid very well.

I’d just as soon do some kind of other problem solving if it was interesting and paid as well.

If performance tuning a SQL query is your idea of a good time, don’t let me yuck your yum. I just need the data to solve whatever problem is in front of me that day.