[thorin]

Gratitude is the best attitude.

If you want to mess with cool tech in your own time, create your own company or do cutting edge research at a university go for it.

Otherwise if you can get a well paid job where you get up do stuff you enjoy half the time suck it up and just deal with the corporate stuff. If I could afford not to work I'd miss a few aspects of working in software, but not too many!