I'd say 95% of the code I've ever written hasn't done enough good for anyone to justify the money, time, and effort that went into its creation. Probably 25% wa

I'd say 95% of the code I've ever written hasn't done enough good for anyone to justify the money, time, and effort that went into its creation. Probably 25% was obviously doomed before I started writing it. Very little of that wasted work was of a sort that improved my skills in some significant way or had any redeeming personal value. Talk about demoralizing. It'd be nice to have a role that felt a bit farther abstracted from the level of raw, random input to cold economic processes that most development is, so I could at least fool myself into thinking I was a bit less... used.