It helps to realize any problem (ok, most problems) can be interesting if you look for ways to make it interesting. I hacked together some simple web for my co

It helps to realize any problem (ok, most problems) can be interesting if you look for ways to make it interesting. I hacked together some simple web for my company's internal dashboards and they work fine but I have a million ideas for how I can improve them, but I've always got more pressing priorities to worry about. As a result, I never actually have the time to spend on them. If my manager told me "I want you to spend the next two weeks working solely on the dashboards" I could interpret it as shit work (I mean, come on, we all realize dashboards are pretty boring) or an opportunity to get creative. My job satisfaction has increased greatly with the ability to drop the ego and take an unglamorous task and just do a good job on it.