>A competent software engineer can produce good work whether or not he/she believes in the project. good? yea, maybe. can motivated employee do something bett

>A competent software engineer can produce good work whether or not he/she believes in the project. good? yea, maybe. can motivated employee do something better? more likely. If I'm working in exhausting/problematic business domain and salary is bad, then I'm not trying to outperform/save the day/yadayada unless I really see stuff that must be improved, but generally I'm just doing my stuff and go ahead. I don't like it, but sometimes there's boundary of how much you can mess with stuff that writing burns your hands.