Learn to not care. Learn to not care about being fired, losing everything, and dying in general. For me, the moment was like a longer more drawn out experience

Learn to not care. Learn to not care about being fired, losing everything, and dying in general. For me, the moment was like a longer more drawn out experience like that of Office Space. But it became that. I didn't care what happened, who screwed what up, or what expectations were of me. Fire me if you don't like it. Now you're really gonna be screwed having to pick up the slack without me there. Once I unlocked this, the world became flat. I didn't care about the journey, just the goal. Whip something up. Learn how to socially manipulate expectations. Make it seem like you work. Half ass something and convince people there were significant difficulties. None of your code matters. You are paid to support. Not to reinvent the wheel. So support it with the easiest code possible. Quit trying to do something fancy. It doesn't help when layoffs come about. What does is cozying up to VP's and management who know you work and get things done. Your portfolio means fuck all if not a single person knows what you do, even if you are a better programmer.