There's the thing with good developers. We tend to fit into the INTP range of things, but many flop over to the INFJ and INFP realms as well. Meaningful work, a

There's the thing with good developers. We tend to fit into the INTP range of things, but many flop over to the INFJ and INFP realms as well. Meaningful work, as it were, is incredibly important to the latter two. That's not to say the INTPs don't need the same thing, but to the INF* crowd, its a basic building block for success. Without it, we (INFJ here) burnout incredibly quickly and cease to be as productive as we could be. Anytime I see that "meaningful" this or that in someone's declaration of burnout, I can't help but smile. Not out of schadenfreude, but out of joy that the self regulation of that person's life kicked in. Its a great feeling when you get out of that slump, and recognizing that you're in it is the first step.