My personal recommendation to new developers is to never be tricked into caring about the product you deliver or the company you work for. Care about your prof

My personal recommendation to new developers is to never be tricked into caring about the product you deliver or the company you work for. Care about your professional reputation, sure. Delivery high quality work, of course. But if the company/product fails that's not a reflection on you personally. Nor is it a reflection on you personally if it succeeds. If you want to also put your "heart" into something, make sure it's something that's yours. That could be your own business/product, could be your family or hobbies. But don't let it becomes your wage provider. This is the path to misery for most people. The trick is you won't feel it until your 40s or 50s. One personal anecdote in this area. I once had a manager compliment me in my 1on1 about how I always maintain my cool during stressful events and just get things working. He asked what my strategy was. I explained it's easy to not get flustered about project issues because I don't care about the project or the company. So a project or company failing isn't any reflection on me personally, it's just a minor inconvenience. He laughed in an awkward way that you could tell he wasn't prepared for that kind of answer. He promoted me the next year.