UX jobs boring as shit
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I don't think UX is boring if you have the right mindset and interests. I gravitated towards UX because I got sick of listening to CEO's pontificate on color choice and being critiqued on kerning and leading by in-house pixel pushers.
Design is a super non-homogenous profession. You have different kinds of practitioners all across the spectrum from skilled graphic artists and front-end developers to purely academic user experience designers with minimal technical or creative skills. The folks dreaming up Geiko commercials and doing campaigns for Nike share a common vernacular with the folks designing the interface for paying your cable bills and you're doing your online banking; the two are worlds apart regarding the kind of value they deliver to their patrons. They're a different service and a different type of career. The later is super boring from a graphic design perspective but can be interesting and satisfying form another angle.