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Personally, I always had this mindset: I'm paid for 8 hours a day and when the day is over, the 8 hours are gone and absolutely nothing will bring them back. S
by 0x000xca0xfe 2y ago
Personally, I always had this mindset: I'm paid for 8 hours a day and when the day is over, the 8 hours are gone and absolutely nothing will bring them back.
So why don't I use them to do the absolute best I can as a software engineer because doing great work will improve my skills in the future. I'm losing nothing because 8 hours are 8 hours and doing nothing instead does not gain me anything either.
But by god this behavior is not rewarded by higher-ups. They just tended to see me as an loyal useful idiot even when that's not the case.
- benterix 2y agoI have the same attitude and I don't care if it's rewareded or not, it just makes me happy (and, incidentally, well-remunerated).
- salawat 2y agoIt also quite literally isolated decisionmakers above you from the fact of reality that not everyone is you. This has taken me a long time to internalize, but it's finally managed to work it's way through a thick skull. When you're spending your time constantly bailing poor planners who reap the fruits of your heroics out while burning your own candle at both ends, you harm yourself, and anyone working for you, and anyone who works for the higher ups in question. And the only ones who can recalibrate, are you, and the higher ups. Who won't, unless you force it.
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoYou keep your skills sharp and learn new things, so you're ready when a better opportunity presents itself.