...or commonly phrased by my ex manager when I loudly complained about something as "love it, change it or leave it".

It was a hard truth to swallow, but rationalizing it, I quickly realized all other reactions to adversity are pretty pointless indeed.

There are people who thrive in large orgs and then there's others... eventually I realized there's simply no way I'll ever make peace with bureaucracy.

I can stand brilliant chaos and long, hard hours among talented people better than being a smart cog in the wheel who effectively does 50% of a 9-5 gaming the system and playing solitaire otherwise.

Everybody needs to choose their poison.