We attract people on the basis of an opportunity to work your butt off and get it done right, and see it get out the door without getting all screwed up.
I wish someone had said this out loud in my presence a long time ago. It's always been the most important thing about my satisfaction with employment, but I honestly hadn't really 100% understood how important it was to me until working at my current gig (some 12 years into my career).
I've managed to do that throughout my career... until my current position. And not shipping, let alone not shipping quality, has been the biggest hit on my morale.
For me, quitting the day job to return to being my own boss is very much about re-focusing on shipping quality. It's less about the chance to be rich, and more about a chance to feel proud in what I've accomplished.
Job satisfaction is such an undefined term, but this is a big part of that definition for me.
I wish someone had said this out loud in my presence a long time ago. It's always been the most important thing about my satisfaction with employment, but I honestly hadn't really 100% understood how important it was to me until working at my current gig (some 12 years into my career).
But yeah. That. Exactly that.