| ▲ | zelphirkalt 2 hours ago | |
About the work being more enjoyable when seeing it as a craft: I think it only is more enjoyable, if you can somehow bring part of your craftsmanship into it, and are not overly limited by other people or the sprint or management or any of the other many factors that ruin the fun, like time available, terrible inherited codebase that would take weeks or months to fix, and so on. | ||
| ▲ | imiric 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
Well, sure, there are aspects of the work that can suck the joy out of it, but that's part of it. :) Even in personal projects I can create a codebase that's difficult to work with, or depend on third party code and tools that I don't particularly enjoy. The tricky task is navigating in and around these hurdles, knowing how and when to address them, and ultimately, simply accepting them. If your expectation is constant enjoyment, you'll be disappointed not just at work, but at life in general. That said, I struggle with this as well, so I'm speaking more aspirationally than from a place of wisdom. :) | ||