Crporate programming sucks and will always suck. Your team leads, managers, CTOs, and CEOs all lose the plot as soon as they are promoted (if they ever were). Unrealistic deadlines, little to no understanding of the craft/job/whatever, unrealistic expectations, unwillingness to listen to the experts, no progress or too much process, and so on.

I enjoy myself much more when writing my own stuff. No deadlines, sometimes not even a plan. Just jumping from task to task; whatever seems fun at the time. I might work on the same project for months, sometimes for days, sometimes not at all as I take a break and just touch grass or play games. But at work... No such luck. Just have to trudge through the crap.

We need to tax wealth and introduce UBI. Fuck corporate work.