Caring about your work and work environment can make time spent working a lot more fulfilling. Which isn't to say every company or every manager inspires such sentiment, but if you can find a way to care about your work, and/or find work that you care about, it's definitely more pleasant than just doing the minimum to collect pay.
Nothing is worse then when you care, and apparently all the code written/test/work done 3 months by team goes straight to the trash, no explanation.
Simply some exec in this large thought that it should go to trash, couldn't even give me a reason.
I quickly quit after that.
Believe me, it's far worse when everybody working on it thinks it should go in the trash, but everybody is still working on it because some exec in this large org thinks it still has promise year after year.
I've been on both sides of that, and while I appreciate execs that know how to give a project room to breath and find their footing, I also appreciate execs that know when to tear the bandaid off.
