I don't think anything has hurt me as much emotionally in my career as working at a really great place as my first job, setting my expectations for the next ten years of my career to be anything like that, and then get curb stomped over and over again by mediocrity that thought it was objectivity or responsibility.
Trying to mold people who did not want to be molded resulted in a lot of Pyrrhic victories.
Trying to mold people who did not want to be molded resulted in a lot of Pyrrhic victories.