80 karma · joined March 26, 2014
As I said in one of the above comments, I was working on tooling for the week, and I was feeling good about it (I was motivated).
I feel If I leave the job I'll just follow my survival instincts and not solve the real problem.
Ragrdig what you've said. >Since I am motivated by making things more efficient, taking >a week to focus on better test automation and feeling the >reward of making my colleagues' lives a bit better.
That's what I exactly did last week for example. I've been building a tool for performance testing and automation and I was feeling good. Now, I'm done with this and I have to get back to my daily routines, which not making me happy. Moreover, one of my good teammate is leaving and that's just makes everything even more worse :)
The money wasn't prior number 1 for me, so probably it's not about the money.
What is really matters for me are people that surrounding me every day when I come to office.
Recently, we've been merged with another team. We where doing a great job before, a team spirit was so great that we where able to deliver better than others.
I literully was waking up with a huge smile on my face, because I knew that today we gonna do some awesome shit (no matter if it is bug fixing or performance improvements or new features).
Now, we have super huge team tons of projects and instead of goals that we are desire to achieve we have tasks that we have to close.
Now, I waking up with a sad face, because I know that today I'm going to "close the next issue", instead of "work on chalanging problem" that makes everyone in a team to feel proud of that.