Tedious caller: Hello Joel and Jeff. My name is Jeffrey Wiens, and I have been a developer for around four years. I'm currently in an applied mathematics graduate program because I needed something more challenging than what my previous jobs could offer. How would you deal with programmers like me, that are intellectually bored at work?
Joel Spolsky: There are no bored people, there are only BORING people. If you're bored at work it's because you're a boring person.
-- Stack Overflow podcast #82