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What, just because a feature got cancelled?

Heck, that's every single day at my last job. North of 50% of the code I ever worked on because a C-O insisted it was top priority got thrown in the trash. C-O screwed up, feature won't o to production, hurry up and work on this other thing instead? Oh, I guess it's Tuesday. Paychecks keep coming, I keep workin'....

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Seems like it was an entire platform rather than just a feature. I don't know how you do it! I've worked somewhere like that too and I found it so demoralising.

Reminds me of the study where people built things out of Lego, and watched on as someone disassembled them and handed them back to be rebuilt, finding this to be deeply unsatisfying. (well duh)

I separate my identity from my job, and my "work product" from my personal projects. If I get paid to make something for somebody else, it belongs to the person or organization who paid for it, and they can do what they want with it--including burning it down and throwing it away. I already have their money; what they do with their property is none of my business. As long as I know that I did a good job on what was asked of me, that's all that matters--I can be satisfied with my work.

Now, if they tried to tell me what to do with my own personal projects, we'd have problems!

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