Wow. You certainly do! It's hard to recall why, but it did ratchet up about a year ago. Maybe it was because I'd really stepped into the spotlight in my industry and at the office, well... nothing changed. Then we got bought by an industry giant, a new boss was entering the picture, but ultimately... nothing changed.
The job isn't drudgery, exactly (well some of it is, immensely so, but I can easily tolerate a whole bunch of drudgery, even highly-technical drudgery, if all else goes well); it's just a matter of being ignored. For good or bad, much of my technical career I've produced stuff beyond what people think possible.
But today I don't even get so much as an "attaboy" -- they simply have no idea, nor do they seem to care, what I do day to day. And when I do achieve a score for Our Side... nobody notices.
Yah, I think it's time to go. Working for a mega-corporation more than three times the size of the city I grew up in is the pits.
I was married to a technical writer. He called his work "kindergarten stuff...cutting and pasting." But he also wrote text books and manuals for several aerospace companies.
He was "there" when Skylab went up, and was there for the Enterprise. If he bacame unhappy in his work, I encouraged him to look elsewhere for employment. He was never out of work more than two weeks until he retired. For good.
I refused to sit at home and take the residual BS from his bosses. Do yourself a favor: Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle of it, from top to bottom. On the right side, write "PRO" ~~ on the left side, write "CON."
Then list all the GOOD things about the company you work for on the Pro side, and the bad things on the Con side. Be honest. Ask your wife to help.
Whichever side has the most things listed is the side you should "listen" to.
(But you didn't hear it from ME!) It's just a suggestion to a friend is all...;o]