> My advice after 30 years in the industry is: Just do your job adequately. No one at your funeral is going to eulogize your work performance.
Maybe nobody cares about your work, but there is one person that should care: you.
You are already devoting your time to work, so why not make sure that you get some satisfaction from it. A massive pay increase for something that your bosses can't take from you.
Watch any good tradie or professional, and discover what pride they get beyond the dollars paid to fix your tap or wipe your arse.
I look back on work I have done with pride. There is no-one with enough knowledge (only me) to judge the qaulity of my past work (especially because much of it was not part of a development team). Like most work done by most people, the work I have done in the past is now worthless e.g. superceded by other systems. I haven't built monuments. Only I can judge the work I have done.
I do work for others because I'm not rich enough to survive without a salary.
When I work, I of course do so with skill and professionalism (which I do take pride in), but that's where it ends.
I only take pride in the work I do for myself and as a service to the community. If I'll have no rights to the work, I take no pride in it; it's merely a mercantile exchange.
Maybe nobody cares about your work, but there is one person that should care: you.
You are already devoting your time to work, so why not make sure that you get some satisfaction from it. A massive pay increase for something that your bosses can't take from you.
Watch any good tradie or professional, and discover what pride they get beyond the dollars paid to fix your tap or wipe your arse.
I look back on work I have done with pride. There is no-one with enough knowledge (only me) to judge the qaulity of my past work (especially because much of it was not part of a development team). Like most work done by most people, the work I have done in the past is now worthless e.g. superceded by other systems. I haven't built monuments. Only I can judge the work I have done.