I perfectly hear what you mean. It used to be that working on a dynamic team (with member of different age) would be a big source of motivation. But nowadays w

I perfectly hear what you mean. It used to be that working on a dynamic team (with member of different age) would be a big source of motivation. But nowadays with remote working and teams spread all over the world (and managers and business units having different agenda sometimes), this seems to fade away, hard to find anyway. What is left? Somehow I have grown to hate an unfinished job -- a failed, or a late, or simply a clunky product. I can't help but think that I've put in it days of my life that I count much more thoroughly now than I used to. Another source -- I hate to fail people who puts trust in me, and they tend to do this more now than when I was younger. Funny enough, people's managers in companies I have been don't seem to understand these motivational factors. In yearly career-development meetings, I absolutely had to provide a "proof of motivation" by coming up with a "career path" leading somewhere.