I'm comparing careers and I'm curious to know....

What is your biggest most meaningful project in your career? Also what is your career?

I'm comparing careers and I'm curious to know....

What is your biggest most meaningful project in your career? Also what is your career?

Currently I am a Sr. Software Engineer doing bizdev stuff in (mostly) C#.

As for the most meaningful project... that's hard to say. As far as professional ones go, one project involved software to secure military networks; very important but it didn't make tons of money or advance my own career much. My current project is seen/used by tens of thousands of people daily, and might expand that by a few orders of magnitude in a year or two. And it's likely to move me one or two steps along my career path.

is your current project your own personal project or are you part of a firm?

is your current project your own personal project or are you part of a firm?

Professional. The phrasing of your question implied that's what you were interested in. Even the best personal projects rarely constitute a career.

I'm comparing careers and I'm curious to know....

What is your biggest most meaningful project in your career? Also what is your career?

If you want us to share then what do you currently do?
Also, what would you want to do if you could get paid doing absolutely anything?
What do you want to get out of our answers?

Sr. Software Engineer here also, working primarily with C++. Main project I work on is access control software, used by tens of thousands of people daily, unless you count the cardholders, in which case it runs well into the tens or hundreds of millions.
It's meaningful stuff because if the system fails then on certain sites it can cost easily a million dollars a day in downtime, and bugs can certainly lead to loss of life.

Moving thread to the Lounge, as it is not programming related.

What is your biggest most meaningful project in your career

I added the algorithm allowing skynet to become self aware. It hasn't panned out quite yet, but I think in the years to come it will be the biggest most meaningful project of anyone's careers.

The most meaningful project of my professional career is something that will be used by lots of people. I can't go into details about it, unfortunately.

As for my hobby projects, I think my tetris clone wins because it's the only game I've ever completed. Yes, I'm aware of how wrong it is to be on GameDev for over a decade and only complete 1 unoriginal game

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What is your biggest most meaningful project in your career

I added the algorithm allowing skynet to become self aware. It hasn't panned out quite yet, but I think in the years to come it will be the biggest most meaningful project of anyone's careers.
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You mean by the time it destroys everyone, making it impossible for anyone else to start a project?

I'm a mechanical engineer, my biggest and most meaningful project so far (my first ever project of any kind for that matter) is planning and carrying out the whole life-cycle of some new products: from designing the machine that manufactures them, through building the machine, to design and manufacture the products. [size="1"]
The sad part is that the company forgot to do some market research, so no fucking one is buying those products (and the company handles the whole project as some uninteresting hobby project which is free since they got pork-barrel on the base machine and the raw material and on my employment).....