Seconded. No matter how good you feel you are in this field, chances are great that 90% of your work is based on negative input. Relatively few developers get t

Seconded. No matter how good you feel you are in this field, chances are great that 90% of your work is based on negative input. Relatively few developers get to work on green-field projects with any frequency, and even those can (and will) quickly become slog-fests of bug patching. The more management overhead there is in the company, the faster this happens (IME). If you can remap this in your mind to be expressed as improving negative experiences, then maybe it will seem better emotionally :)