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Get your satisfaction in life outside of your job.
Change jobs! Seriously. Nothing more invigorating than to face new challenges, tools and codebases and to get to know new people and new ways of working. It also costs energy but usually it makes you feel better at the end of a day rather than worse.
After my last change things got even worse. Well... except $$$. But it was promising in the beginning.
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This happens once there's a cash cow product with a decent market share. Once that happens, it's marketing and sales who call the shots.
Indeed. In every company developers have a very thick glass ceiling. The only way up is to make it to VP/CTO/etc. If you're not in sales (marketing...maybe) you aren't going to ever make the big bucks. Your pay will never be commensurate to your suffering. So, just stop caring. It's weird how 3 words can be so hard to execute on. But after being one of the morons in the 20% I mentioned earlier I suddenly attained enl…
Align yourself with a project that's important to the business.
Align is a meaningless MBA buzzword, candidly. If I think the project is worthwhile, I’m already aligned. If I think it’s stupid, I can’t “align myself” without first being convinced that I was wrong and the project is, in fact, great.
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