[Arainach]

>What's unbelievable is the scale of the ops, the high quality of ppl, and the amount of work that happens behind the scenes and yet the output is garbage. Money making garbage for sure....So the only worthwhile thing to do, if you have a choice, is to go work on something controllable. Or break the machine.

Or go find value in something else in the world besides your job. I work on a big team that's a small part of a big product that's a small part of a big company. My work is in Java, not the latest hot frameworks. It doesn't involve machine learning or any buzzwords (though we get asked at least once a year to consider a hackathon on how we could try to shove some machine learning in there to do......well, that's for me to figure out). If I make the most catastrophic screwup I can, I won't move company revenues by anything close to a percentage point. If I am the biggest success I could possibly be and motivated my immediate teammates to be their best selves as well we would not increase corporate revenues by anything close to a percentage point. So we do fine work, and at 5PM I go home.

.....and I love it. I have friends, and hobbies. I ride my bicycle without worrying about having to be on-call every other week, I go to experiences, I come home and spend time with my family. And you know what? My bonus target and salary band are the same as a bunch of people working crazy hours doing "worthwhile" things in divisions that have higher stakes. They're dramatically higher than most of my friends at startups working long hours trying to "change the world" right until their company goes broke or (best case) gets acquired making the founders rich and leaving all other option-holders underwater.

So you tell me which of us has the job that's worth doing.