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There is nothing wrong with trying to earn the most money you can. I don't enjoy working with people who don't enjoy what they are doing however.

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I don't enjoy working with people who don't enjoy what they are doing however.

I wonder if your manager feels the same way you feel about code, but about meetings. Maybe they wish you'd chosen a career that paid less because you don't enjoy meetings. You probably drag their working day right down by not finding meetings super fun.

Except it is code that moves their company, not meetings.

Anyways, their manager can stick their opinion where the sun doesn’t shine, just OP does probably since it’s anticlimactic to express opinions like that.

If you become a novelist not because you want to tell stories but because you want to sell a few books, don't be surprised when nobody likes your novels

Isn't that how Garfield came into existence? Jon Davis created the character because he'd be marketable, and has turned the series into a merchandising empire as a result.

The meetings are not the product. The code implements the product, so this analogy falls flat.

Communication is pretty much the most important part of the process of building software at scale. Meetings are a simple way of having that communication quickly. Without communication (eg meetings) most software would fail to ship, largely because the developers would never stop working on it long enough to push it over the line.

Meetings are of course necessary. The problem is pointless meetings.

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