Are you passionate about your day job?
I've lost interest in my job and I feel like a contactor only doing work to collect my salary. I predict our project will fail because upper management has no idea what quality is and I don't want to stick around on a failing project. On whatever project you work on: Do you actually care about the problem you are solving and believe in the product?
Was it ever interesting working for cisco though?
The project no. However, our tech stack is great and we have tons of customers. So there is a real impact with my work.
Yep. If I wasn't I'd change it. I spend more time there than I do with my family.
If you can't find a reason to want to go to work everyday outside of shooting small talk with coworkers at lunch -- find a new job or get fired. I say the latter because it sounds like from how you phrased this you COULD have something you love at work but management isn't "allowing" it to happen. Don't get their permission. Do it anyways. Piss people off. Be tactful, but don't let your friends meander knowingly into the line of fire. Or unknowingly into the darkness. Do great work or leave. If they can't see the value of the project, show them. Make them understand. No one saw the value of "a phone without a keyboard", until the iPhone and millions of people were standing in line. Or the tragedy that was "New Coke" until a boycott and huge market share was lost. I see more Barracuda WIFI hot spots everyday, and as I don't know if they're Cisco or not (not my part of tech) -- it sounds like there is something great that can happen that you see. Do it. Make your company amazing, or find one you want to make amazing.
"Don't get their permission. Do it anyways. Piss people off." ^ THIS THIS THIS
What would you say is the upper limit of pissing people off? I've done that a lot and have seemed to have made a lot of enemies, despite being considered "hyper-productive" and "passionate" (I don't think I am, though a lot of people keep telling me as such).
Loveeee my day job :). I care about the problem I'm working on because I invented the problem and now also own the problem with full autonomy. The key is: be the key owner of whichever problem you are solving and you'll be happy. If you can't own the problem: find a new job.
Love my company. Was re-orged into a team I do not feel passionate about.
It's pretty cool and I still like what I do. I miss my coworker friends who have left (they all left) but on the bright side I have a really cool project I'm working on atm. So my passion has cooled but I still like what I do. The benefit of picking a company for the product, I guess.
I love mine. Not joking either, it's really great and lots of fun!
I wish..
For me I am the projects manager. Development engineer .. yes company pays me but it is my responsibility to make this project successful.. Even though there are times where I doubt it will succeed but that doesn't stop me to give my best every single day I got
No
Sold out too?