design manager for a toy brand, bounced around a little in the company. the job itself is fun but the most consistent ingredients for satisfaction (other than

design manager for a toy brand, bounced around a little in the company. the job itself is fun but the most consistent ingredients for satisfaction (other than compensation) have been: flexibility in projects to choose from, autonomy/lack of micromanagement(!), time flexibility, having a boss I respect or at least tolerate positively, and emotionally mature team members. It's been a pretty obvious 1:1 in change of happiness when one or more of those elements change, and I tend to correct it in a hurry.