&gt; No matter what’s your job, you don’t have a significant contribution on the game. You’re a drop in a glass of water, and as soon as you realize it, your ownership will evaporate in the sun. And without ownership, no motivation.<p>This is why I left my &#x27;dream job&#x27; of work working on a AAA MMORPG.  I came on board early on as the first member of a &#x27;NetOps&#x27; team, a senior linux systems administrator, which later split off and grew into a number of very large, very specialized teams.  My loose definition of &#x27;dream job&#x27; at that time was &#x27;large scale&#x27; and &#x27;video games&#x27;.  Cool!<p>It took a few years for me to redefine what a &#x27;dream job&#x27; really meant, and being a drop in a bucket was not it, so I left and moved on (slowly) to freelancing, and haven&#x27;t looked back.