The work itself isn’t the issue, it’s the fluff around the work. Meetings, agile ceremonies, office politics/playing the game. There was a book on it, Bullshit jobs.

My current situation is I’m in the easiest job I’ve had, fantastic package, working the slowest I’ve ever worked with no manager pressure, no “what you doing, where’s the product”. With that it’s burning me out daily. Agile ceremonies, splitting hairs on non important details bike shedding, not delivering, no product in twelve months, everything needs a meeting, a design doc, and unanimous agreement from the team.

It’s killing me. I want to work hard and I want to build things and see things used. Essentially I’m sat twiddling thumbs knowing I am not working at my best because the culture/process is stopping me from actually doing the real work, the product features that customers pay for.