If you identify yourself to your work outcome it sucks your soul, but if you don’t you become nihilistic so it’s all about finding the balance.
More seriously it depends a lot on team/project/management but mostly you gotta really like troubleshooting, translating requirements+caffeine into code and defend/discuss your decisions. Working on a fresh clean codebase tends to be much more satisfying.
Just noped out of my last job cos the new manager was randomly calling me without a heads up to understand what the next steps are. Aka asking me and the other team member to do his work for him. I see highly competent people struggling to find jobs and guys like this in F500 companies — and can’t help but wonder what’s wrong with selection.
In the agent era we’re entering I wouldn’t be so surprised they’d try to stuff ads where they can. “Your plane has been booked. Looking for a hotel for your stay? Don’t look further!”
What I’m wondering when reading such theories is: does money matter all that much to these people? Like when you’re 80+ years old and a billionaire I don’t see what the end game there is, unless it’s just an uncle Scrooge attitude but I still find it a bit hard to believe. I think that in order to become a billionaire you need to be seriously driven by something more than 0s - maybe power, influence or attention.
Me when checkout is at 12:00