> spend the next 20 years of my life attending standups and updating Jira tickets What's frustrating is that this is self-inflicted damage from agile. The fir

> spend the next 20 years of my life attending standups and updating Jira tickets What's frustrating is that this is self-inflicted damage from agile. The first not-quite-20 years of my career there were no standups, no jira-centric workstyle (we had bug trackers of course, but day to day work didn't revolve around that the way it does with jira). Work was so pleasant, solving interesting technical problems and making the product better, just like hacking at home on personal projects. Work doesn't have to be sprinting from status report meeting to status report meeting. It never was that way before agile. I've largely opted out of day to day programming just to avoid that unpleasant madness. But I miss it and wish I could go back to exciting hands-on programming every day, without the agile headaches.