[logicalmonster]

Are you currently working? Are you currently working within a big or small company? Do you have good or bad bosses?

IMO, a big chunk of life frustration here can often just be developers working on dumb projects, with bad bosses, surrounded by bad process.

Everybody would feel like crap if they had dumb managers riding their ass trying to crack the whip with short deadlines, working on bad projects with not much real benefit to humanity, etc.

One solution might be just trying to find a good workplace: even if you have to take a little paycut to work on something more meaningful to you.