&gt; At my last job, I was the primary fire-putter-outer on a number of fronts, and it was very disheartening watching new projects (that I&#x27;d put my hand up for) get handed off to others while I was busy fixing up the previous efforts of said others.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this happen at an even bigger scale. The site I was part of was very successful, and was therefore completely unable to get any time or capital to do independent (non-contract) projects. And some of the projects we wanted to do were to improve our IP holdings within the space we were working! Meanwhile, the <i>entire site</i> that lost two contracts to rebids all got put on cool, independent, green-field projects. Completely bananas, and a symptom of a much larger problem of not rewarding success that eventually caused me to leave.