████riders, what are your jobs

Alright, so everyone here derides ENTERPRISE CRUD apps programming for its pseudo scientific rituals revolving around TLAs like UML or MDA, the ignorance of its practitioners of the fundamentals, and generally being boring and shittily implemented.

The question is, does anyone here do anything other than that? Assuming that anyone here does have a job.

It's about the only kind of job that you can get in my shit country, other than getting into academia to train the next generation of business programmers :(

I work at a small Django company in the EU. I work mostly on travel stuff, in particular our ``travel API that doesn't suck''. There are lots of interesting problems, mostly design, but also algorithmic. For instance cache invalidation with Varnish is nice, and putting people in hotel rooms as efficiently as possible is always a challenge with the ridiculous rules hotels have (don't get me started on children). The shitty part is interfacing with lame third party API's. XML that depends on element order wrapped in SOAP with custom authorization, forced connection pooling, 1000 page documentation that doesn't tell you what you need to know, test servers that don't represent the live servers, extreme bureaucratic overhead etc.

I will quit my job in two weeks to study Maths (unless I fail the entrance exam). Not because I don't like the job, I'm just trying to go forward with my life.