> Suppose you could design your dream job that you'll be starting on Monday. It's at your ideal company with your ideal job title and salary. All you have to do

> Suppose you could design your dream job that you'll be starting on Monday. It's at your ideal company with your ideal job title and salary. All you have to do is tell them what you want to do at your job and you can have it. What does your job entail? Funny thing about that to me. What I'm doing matters less to me than why and with whom. I certainly know the kinds of software development and management tasks that I enjoy doing the most. But when I look back over my fondest memories and the biggest high points of my career, it's always about the team. It's who I was working with, what we accomplished together. I've been self-employed for the last several years, and that experience has helped crystallize the importance of the team. I'd seriously consider cleaning toilets and changing bedpans if it was with the right team for the right reasons. That's not likely to happen, though. So to bring it down to a more practical level: working on going-nowhere legacy software that does something important with a great team of people all pushing for excellence-- that would be great for me. But doing the kind of software development I enjoy the most, with a team of pretentious primadonnas who don't really care about actually putting projects into the done-basket, for users who don't really want to use the software-- that's a hell job. I speak from experience.