Unfold the future...
What does the future hold for you at $YOUR->$EMPLOYER? A friend just said she liked to work somewhere that challenges, that provides "a future", and a ladder to climb - a kind of comfort that your job is stable, that lets you see good results at the end of day, that lets you feel the stability of the organization, and you're place in it.
I mentioned that I like being able to see $CLIENT's life, routine, or process improved by the solutions we make, seeing our creations born, raised, and living long enough for them to thrive in the open field of users, growing old having lived a long and worthy execution.
I remember that feeling in some of my earlier jobs, be it a simple database for tracking food parcel requests, to automating the scientific analysis of geothermal steam flows. But for some reason I don't really feel that with $EMPLOYER; that provision of "future", nor do I see peoples lives, or daily routine improved by what we're doing.
At the end of the day; we do little more than enable people to spam, and what's worse, that spams on your mobile phone, not you're INBOX. It disgusts me, I detest getting the email borne spam, let alone mobile borne ( it should that be moborne ) spam; and here we are providing an infrastructure for others to do just that.
So what does the future unfold? Lately I've seen emptiness in a lot of IT companies; there is no future, only transition. We employ, we refactor, we get bored and move on to the next "project", be it with the same company or another.
There's little incentive to show loyalty to stick around or ride out the long haul.
There's often no where to go, and nowhere to grow.
There's often no leadership, no source of mentoring or organized higher learning.
There's only the gaping wounds of an abyss forged by a sales man in a blue suit.
There's only me.
And there is no future here.