Hello, fellow dev! I found myself in the same position after roughly two years or career. Fast forward about 8 years, and I'm now happily freelancing, working

Hello, fellow dev! I found myself in the same position after roughly two years or career. Fast forward about 8 years, and I'm now happily freelancing, working with an awesome team and yet very much working alone on my code. A few things: 1. team matters. Humanly speaking, I mean. Everyone takes shortcuts, or sees "best practices" differently. Find a team that is willing to build a great product together, accept a few tradeoffs, and you'll be a lot happier at work. 2. Find things you like working on, but that everyone else hates. You'll love doing it, and the team will happily leave that to you. 3. Don't get emotionally involved. A job is a job, it's only a part of your life. Work on side projects if you'd like (outside office hours and on your hardware), or take on another hobby. Who knows where it'll lead. Some niche you enjoy, maybe? Do I like my job? Well, yeah I do, very much so. Truth be told, it's the only thing I can do for so. much. time. But yes, with 40h of the same thing each week, you're bound to look on the other side of the fence sometimes. I don't think it makes sense to go full alone, but find a great team and take the responsibility for something you love but everyone else hates. Bingo! Oh, and a last thought in edit: old software is awesome. Think about it, it's still here because it stood the test of time. No small feat!