I feel more and more the need to do the bare minimum than actually putting passion into what I do at my job. For context, I am a junior developer for a private bank, that wears multiple hats (BA, QA, Dev, Admin, and sometimes coordinating with contractor's work). I have always believed in documentation, scalability of resources, keeping up to date with technology (risks, trends, new approaches) and following proper practices.
In the last 6 months, I feel like the amount of bullshit I have to deal with has increased exponentially, from entitled and grumpy stakeholders, to contractors avoiding any work and having to report on what they are doing right and wrong, to presenting myself as not struggling, not being unhappy with things, or exhausted.
Even with all this dissatisfaction, I am still excited about tech, and I take great joy when I am thinking about the architecture of a system and putting it into practice, while sticking to my want for following proper practices. I try to approach work like this, but it feels like when I want to do things the right way, I just get punished with more work, more expectations, and fuck all support.
Is it even worth trying to enhance the business processes and get things in the right place? I feel like doing the bare minimum and pretending to be utterly busy pays the same at the end of the month...