I have two pieces of advice. First is the oft-stated, "there's more to a job than pay." You need to decide, based on where you are in life, whether the stability and pay of the current job is worth the damage to your psyche or not. Or if you can just learn to let it go, lessening the damage. Which leads me to my next piece of advice.

Don't sweat the small stuff. And the corollary: it's all small stuff. I had a manager who really could not see past the next release. There was rarely any time set aside for improving things to make things cheaper, yet there was consistantly a cry to do so. So what I did was present my case to my manager, and when (not if - it was pretty much a sure thing) he said "no", I not only dropped it, but I refused to do it. If they want to pay more for this stuff down the road for a minor savings now, that's their business, not mine. I'm not a manager, I'm not paid to make those resource decisions. Therefore, I didn't. I told them my honest opinion on what they were doing, what the cost was today, and what the cost was tomorrow. And they invariably picked the short-sighted option. But, if anything, it merely has increased my pay as they reward my honesty. It hasn't reduced my pay at all. Although it really should be reducing their pay, I don't think it does, because no one really gets what these decisions are costing them.

And that's really the bottom line. Though I try to educate them on long-term costs of solutions, they never seem to see those costs show up. They're there in larger sizings to accomplish work, but they don't see those larger sizings as based on the failure to do things right two years ago. They see those sizings as the cost to do the next incremental thing. And it's their business to run into the ground. I just keep my resume up to date, and focus on what's really important to me: my parents (and in-laws), my siblings (and the siblings-in-law), their kids, and, most importantly, my wife and our unborn child. Everything else is small stuff.

In reply to Re: CVS history woes by Tanktalus
in thread CVS history woes by Anonymous Monk

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