At least back when I was on a track team, if I didn't run so hard every practice that everything hurt after, my times did not improve. If I even ran on my own d

At least back when I was on a track team, if I didn't run so hard every practice that everything hurt after, my times did not improve. If I even ran on my own during the summer instead of competing with teammates, my times were terrible when I got back to school. What's the point of being on the team if my times didn't improve? Unfortunately, at startups, everyone does everything and there's a ton of muck work. At a big company maybe you can get away with saying, that's not my job so I won't do something tough, but at a startup you just aren't going to beat the big guys with that attitude. You have to do the muck work, and if you can excite yourself about it, even better. Maybe you'll even automate it or hack around it somehow, but you can't leave it undone just because it is painful.