> Your value to the company is not that you can design the shiny city on the hill, that’s the easy bit. Your value is that you know how to get there while keeping the swamp that you are in right now functioning.
s/Your value to the company/Your value to your project/
As you said on other articles/posts, what the company values (with $$$ formatted as promos and comp) many times is not aligned with what the company needs to get stuff done.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way"
Re the compensation bit: 8 years ago or so someone told me that. My response was "one day I'll be as jaded as you are. Not today."
But I think he doesn't *really* believe it, anymore than you do. Apropos having an odd idea of fun ;) We try to find joy in what we do, when we can't - we try something else. Work is not 100% type 1 fun. But if you can get a good handle on type 2 fun, that would probably carry you :) especially if you're having your type 2 fun with good people around you.
> Your value to the company is not that you can design the shiny city on the hill, that’s the easy bit. Your value is that you know how to get there while keeping the swamp that you are in right now functioning.
s/Your value to the company/Your value to your project/
As you said on other articles/posts, what the company values (with $$$ formatted as promos and comp) many times is not aligned with what the company needs to get stuff done.
That is definitely true and I do not have a great answer to that.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way"
Compare F*ckup nights with ops review ;)
Re the compensation bit: 8 years ago or so someone told me that. My response was "one day I'll be as jaded as you are. Not today."
But I think he doesn't *really* believe it, anymore than you do. Apropos having an odd idea of fun ;) We try to find joy in what we do, when we can't - we try something else. Work is not 100% type 1 fun. But if you can get a good handle on type 2 fun, that would probably carry you :) especially if you're having your type 2 fun with good people around you.