I worked number of years in IT in financial institutions. Almost none of that work was very interesting on its own. A lot of IT work in finance is about moving

I worked number of years in IT in financial institutions. Almost none of that work was very interesting on its own. A lot of IT work in finance is about moving data, transforming data etc. There is maybe some fancy work out there - algorithmic trading, super-low latency trading etc, but rest is mostly boring.