never try (well... if you employer doesn't value you or your opinion)

Career Tip #86: Learn a lesson from Homer; never try.  Now, I'm being a bit facetious here, but I have worked at one of the oldest and largest computer hardware companies in the word where I sat in an employee town hall to hear an HR rep tell several hundred people that we "should be grateful we have a job".  Yes, that was motivating for sure.  Motivated me right out that darn door!

Some professions simply do not have the level of flexibility and opportunities that I have been blessed with in the software development field.  My wife for example is a high school teacher and when you are told things like "everyone is replaceable", and you see people actually being replaced, then you surely don't feel you are on solid ground.  If you further try hard (and get emotionally invested) and then fall for the "we want your opinion" trap that ends in you being declared a problem to the organization... well... your opinion, much less your hard work & integrity, surely do not matter to a place like that.

If you can't leave that place, then (unfortunately) you've been forced to give them what they really want; a "never try" attitude.