I work in Aerospace. Anything that flies commercially in the USA has to meet rigorous development, planning, and verification guidelines in order to become "certified" for flight. My jobs have ranged from writing requirements, software design, software implementation (Ada, c, c++, assembly) on RTOS, test case writing and implementation, test execution on target hardware and documentation of all of the above.

The day to day is usually the same for months at a time until the project phase changes. Ie) Write test cases for the next 2 months. Review requirements for a month. There's some excitement, but it's usually tedious.

I'm open to questions. I have about 5 yrs experience

I work in the banking industry. Most of my time coding is spent writing JS for LiveCycle/Acrobat PDFS and PHP for our online forms.

Day to day for me is a sea of interruptions with the occasional moments of calm when I can work in peace. It certainly keeps things interesting, though I would prefer to get my work done without having to try to chase down my train of thought every ten minutes.

It's a thankless job of I only consider my boss's reaction to my work. Usually, the people who ask for the forms will sent me little notes or emails thanking me for what I did.

I'm graduating nowish and starting a development job in education technology next month.

I work in the private Medicare/Medicaid processing industry. When your doctor prescribes you a medication that has certain limitations (Suboxone, for example), they have to submit a Prior Authorization request. This request is then reviewed by our own doctors and pharmacists for necessity and accuracy being algorithmically reviewed by our backend systems, running through validations specified by each state.

I help to develop the backend systems and am currently the sole developer of the Web-based for it.

Mobile security. I am a software engineer, but sometimes I end up filling in for the sysadmin. Day to day is typically engaging enough to be entertaining (I enjoy solving complex problems), but I have my fair share of boring and stressful days. All in all, best job I've ever had.

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Telecommunications. Day is relaxing and fun. Start about 9:30am to avoid the traffic, leave about 6:30 for the same reason. I work solidly all day. The stuff is pretty complicated, so a lot of it is 2 hours of meetings, 2 hours of private discussions, 2 hours of thinking, 1.5 hours researching and reading documentation, 5 minutes coding, 25 minutes cleaning up and checking in and documenting, and 5 seconds attaboys on a job well done. Used to be more coding, but now it's more thinking and communicating. Can't complain. It's solid intellectual work, everything makes a difference, and it's well paid, and there's some flexibility.

I work in software development firm . We develop this web design tool "TemplateToaster". It's fun to be part of web development team.

Finance industry. It's going well, not too hard and good money.

Construction...? Wait wrong subverse :(