Satisfying Software Career?

"Internal, in-house software is rarely important enough to justify hiring rock stars. Nobody hires Dolly Parton to sing at weddings. That's why the most satisfying careers, if you're a software developer, are at actual software companies, not doing IT for some bank." [High Notes]

Switching from an IT team to a software product team, one of the first things I noticed was, "Wow! You mean we've been designed for that long...and will be for this much longer?" I'm very excited about how my team is focused on building a great product, one that will do very well in the market, by tuning in to the design and architecture.

I'll miss the high action and close customer support of the IT world. However, I won't miss the constant task and context switching that made it challenging to spend quality time on a product.