It's taught me to worry about people who happily volunteer for difficult tasks. I used to think they were troopers, now I see more and more of them as having a high pain tolerance, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

Pain in information and they throw away a lot. It's a form of job security, and not a particularly benign kind.

Our job is to replace painful processes with code. If you can't do that you aren't fulfilling the basic premise of your profession.