> I’m very happy that I can just write code and do what I’m told on my current project In recent times I had two encounters with colleagues, one a being bit le

> I’m very happy that I can just write code and do what I’m told on my current project In recent times I had two encounters with colleagues, one a being bit less and the other than quite a bit more senior than me, where they both expressed such a sentiment. One phrasing used was "I follow the ticket like a slave" and the other phrasing was "I do whatever $BOSS tells me to do". Not once in my career would I have uttered something like that. But I realize that I was lucky that in my early career I got a lot of rather ambiguous (and also ambitious) tasks paired with more autonomy than my actual experience justified. Don't know how I would have turned out as an engineer if I had started in a company where I would have been expected to simply do what I've been told.