You're asked to demonstrate "ownership", but at any moment some person above you can take all your work away and make you do something entirely different.
Somehow we're asked to care about our work and not care about it at the same time.
You're asked to demonstrate "ownership", but at any moment some person above you can take all your work away and make you do something entirely different.
Somehow we're asked to care about our work and not care about it at the same time.
Really devs should exchange labor like authors with royalties, there's no incentive to ship good software for salary so you just end up with a series of "crushed tickets" aka future work for yourself as job security.
It's not good for the psyche.
You do that by being able to communicate about the trade offs between the holy trinity of projects - on time, on budget and meets requirements.
I'm incredibly burnt out currently, and I'm consistently at under 40 hours at my job.
If either of us at anytime decides that the labor for money transaction is no longer needed. I get another job.
This is obviously not something everyone can do, but if you can, maybe it's worth it.