Hello guys,

I decided to use a fake account for this post. I want to talk about a problem I am facing, which I guess might be common among many people in this community.

I am a junior year student in university and I am doing a summer internship at a reputed tech company. I find my job tremendously boring; Most of my day to day work is reading the documentation and implementing simple things. The hardest part of work is to make sure my code sits well within the existing framework.

I don't find this job exciting at all, but it pays really well. I have student loans and I pay them off by doing such internship every year. My question to you is, what would you suggest to someone like me for the future?

To give some context, I am a mediocre competitive programmer. My actual CodeForces rating is around 2000 and I haven't gone to ICPC World Finals or IOI. I guess you can say that my problem-solving skills are very mediocre. However, I am very interested in algorithms and mathematics. I would like to do research (PhD) after university, but I don't think I am smart enough for it. Also, I hate software development jobs because they seem very boring to me.

What would you suggest?