[austin-cheney]

Management is literally telling you that you lack initiative and/or originality. You are good at doing what you are told but nothing more.

You should spend some time AT WORK writing original software to solve a work related problem. Don’t expect there to be an agile story with your name on it. Do it only because you refuse to repeat the same stupid shit over and over.

Grab the bull by the balls and punch it in the face until complete. Nobody in their right mind will ever task you to grab a bull’s balls or punch it in the face but once you’ve finished you can do something nobody else can. That is literally the thought process: high creativity, low neuroticism, easily frustrated by repetitive nonsense.