Working on a project like that sounds like a lot of fun. I guess there must not be very much money in it though because every company requires custom software, eh?
*If you're good at direct enterprise sales... Most startup guys I know prefer PR, metrics, A/B testing, etc. over this type of meat and potatoes type of work.
Having done a LOT of work in that space (historically), I can assure you it's all SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, AS400 and epic quantities of turds. The largest turd being EDI and all sorts of nastyness.
It's not fun. It's actually painful. It takes a special kind of person to do it: Someone who doesn't care about what they do, just the money.
> It's not fun. It's actually painful. It takes a special kind of person to do it: Someone who doesn't care about what they do, just the money.
In large companies, absolutely. But for rapidly growing companies, this is one of the most challenging jobs out there and you really start to care about it on a personal level. I can make one change on the barcode scanners that saves the six warehouse guys over two hours a day. It actually improves their quality of work life by reducing potential for conflicts and blame. You won't get mentions on TechCrunch but you will help out individuals on a personal basis and the company on an efficiency basis.
Unfortunately the money is way better everywhere else for someone with skills to do this right.
Fair point - I'll give you that. Ironically I did a spot with Intermec barcode scanners and printers for asset management on top of Oracle so I understand where you are coming with.
I actually quit because I was the only one who did care. Everyone else was just after vendor backhanders.
