Agreed. A job needs to be mutually beneficial or you'll wind up hating every day of it. I'm at a stage where I have learned a lot, but I find a lot of resistan

Agreed. A job needs to be mutually beneficial or you'll wind up hating every day of it. I'm at a stage where I have learned a lot, but I find a lot of resistance to implementing my ideas for political reasons - e.g. in replacing our ticketing system, I drew up a proposal for something we already had licenses for, would integrate with our systems and provided features our developers would want. An unrelated team in America had been trialling some expensive software in isolation. I learned the software I was proposing, taught colleagues how to use the prototype, got positive feedback, got licensing sorted (free)... and my idea was swept aside because it wasn't the expensive software the guy in charge (who had approved my prototype) had already decided to go with. Figured then there was little point in me learning stuff that would benefit this company because decisions have already been made, so I'm moving on.