Almost each of such guys didn’t have to respond to Jira tickets and answer to shit asked by PMs and TPMs on a daily basis while standing in a circle and showcase/demo “progress” weekly, be part of a trillion meetings in a day, while also preparing documents for things you provably never understood the why of, and in general justify your existence there in a quantifiable way to every TDH in the team and the company.

So when you’re looking for that role after you think you’ve got that stamina/perseverance/commitment, do remember that maybe you still have to find that right place to work at.