> Care about your work. Care about your project. I think this is the crux of many problems plaguing software development today. Unless you're at a brand-spank

> Care about your work. Care about your project. I think this is the crux of many problems plaguing software development today. Unless you're at a brand-spanking-new startup or have been handed the keys to an exciting greenfield project, you're going to be on a legacy project. Which means a combination of adding new features to a pile of cruft, or fixing bugs in that pile of cruft. This is where it becomes problematic: no one stays at a company longer than a year or two. Industry compensation does not work in the favor of the person dedicating years to a single company and/or project. Which means there is a built in don't-give-a-shit factor to every software project today. Not that the rockstar coders of yesterday ever gave much of a crap of the quality of code they left in their wake, but industry incentives turn us all into code monkeys. And if you happen to be the guy or girl that cares and is staying at the company many years, you'll surely witness a parade of ladder climbers come and go and absolutely destroy the quality of your hard work and effort. I could go on about title inflation, and the fact that only about 1 in 5 devs is, in my book, truly a senior today. But we're way off topic now.