Do the shit work, and do it well. I learned this working at a discount store growing up, not in my professional career but it carries forward. No teenage kid

Do the shit work, and do it well. I learned this working at a discount store growing up, not in my professional career but it carries forward. No teenage kid wants to mop the floor, but when you do it and do it well you get leeway on other stuff. Monotonous code changes spanning over 100 files to transition an application off an older platform? Gotta be done. This is where macros and shortcuts and plowing through work comes in. Be a professional, not a prima donna. You can't just write greenfield new applications using the best tools all the time. It would be like an auto mechanic only wanting to work on engine rebuilds for classic cars and not wanting to do oil changes all week. (I imagine this is the cool thing for auto mechanics, I'm not one though so I could be wrong.)