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Companies are creative until they have large, multi-million dollar contracts and engineers are more of a cost center to keep the lights on.

Most tech is bullshit no matter which way you spin it. I need to pay my bills, so I keep quiet in the meantime. However, 90% of what I feel like I do seems like a waste. Is it a waste for the company? Not sure.

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Yeah, I keep quiet too when I find myself in that position, and for the same reason, need the paycheck. It’s wonderful to do meaningful work and get paid good money for it but it doesn’t align too often that way

I find that most meaningful work or whatever is meaningful to me, is not very well paid

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