Projects I liked: - Projects I worked alone on or at least was the single person responsible for my code (I do like to work with a good designer or a smart guy

Projects I liked: - Projects I worked alone on or at least was the single person responsible for my code (I do like to work with a good designer or a smart guy for the API) - Projects that involved learning new techniques - Projects where I was doing a healthy balance of new code vs maintenance - Projects with very little red tape and lots of responsibility Technology by itself can be interesting and rewarding but it's never the reason you'll like a project. I had a lot of fun doing a very simple CMS backed website in Python with Django where I did basically everything I already knew in another language, only targeting IE9 or more sane so I could use CSS Animations and other nice stuff. The subject itself was not appealing itself although the client was nice and the designer was very good. If you find yourself using cool hip framework x in hipster language y and you are still not happy: perhaps you're just doing too much maintenance on an application that really starts to remind you of that old Java Enterprise stuff you so desparately was trying to get away from, dragging yourself from meeting to meeting while you wait for that half-assed designer to finally give you the design you are now asking for for two weeks on end already. My goals for the future are: - Do more small projects that I can rule completely on my own, until I - Find a product that will either be completely mine, or - Get into a startup with brilliant people