Does it matter what your employer does?

[944fan]

I haven't been enjoying work for a while. Partly this is because I have a very small team and despite a GP over £4M per annum am constantly told I cannot have more staff.

The main reason I think though is that I could give the tiniest st about the end product of what my company does. I just think its crap and pointless. I wonder if I worked for somewhere that had a product or service that interested me would I enjoy it more? I work in IT and IT will always be IT but IT is generally there to support an end product.

When I first started my career I worked for a police force as a developer. Whilst the pay was poor I felt like my job was in someway achieving something.

Do you care what you employer does? Should I actively seek out companies who have a product that interests me?

[944fan]

anonymous said:

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I think so. I am not sure I necessarily need to do something worthy, although that would be even better.

The problem with my current company is our clients think the world will end if their system stops working, whereas the vast majority of people wouldn't even notice. We actually had a site go down for over a week before anyone noticed. It just so pointless.

I think if the goal or end product of the company did something that I was interested in then that would help a lot. I like cars, sports (especially athletics, swimming), F1 (red bull's factory is 5 minutes form my house, but have been turned down by them in the past). I like science.

Anyone know of a sports company in Milton Keynes needing an IT Development Manager?

[944fan]

PurpleTurtle said:

Grass/greener.

Indeed. The grass maybe greener but there are cow pats in every field.