Jesus Fucking Christ.

I’ve done a lot of SQL/Database type work as well, and yep, I’ve been the person learning their insane spider web of db structures, and then either trying to enforce some kind of actual defined standards going forward, or in some instances, succeeding at restrucuring the dbs, transitioning them, and convincing corporate that this actually needed to be done.

It’s insane to think what the civil engineering world would be like if it had the career structure of the software world.

Points at understaffed ATC tower, collapsing bridge that hasn’t been even evaluated in a decade, general state of roadway disrepair and constant re-repair, also the new highway/overpass/lane expansion being built to ‘solve traffic’ despite doing that literally never working