I am not a DBA, per se, even though I am the "main" administrator of our local plant's SQL Server system (I do have DBA help from Corporate IT if needed), but I call my self a programmer. I do get handed many new ASP .Net projects that for the most part use SQL Server as a data base back-end, but I absolutely love me job. I have been doing the same thing going on 15 years now and I have never grown tired of it. I love to take the "concept" of what management wants. That gives me a blank slate to create what I call some artistic piece of work. That is the way I view the projects. Plus some projects, like one I am currently working on, provide me with some challenges to learn new things. But that is how I keep things fresh; I am an artistic person (being into theater and being a writer on the side) and I view my projects as artistic pieces.

Brad