Poll: Meaningless Work or Boring Colleagues?

This seems to be a choice many of us face in the course of their career.

Would you share your preference?

If you want a frame of reference, imagine choosing between a cool startup and government work.

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Boring colleagues all the way. I don't need or expect my coworkers to entertain me. I do need to find some sort of meaning in my work.

codingdave 5mo ago ↗

I'm not sure I follow the correlations of cool startup/government as it relates to boring/meaningless. You can have both boring and interesting people in both startups and in governments. Likewise with meaning - there are startups and government jobs at both extremes.

Overall, I don't think boring people and meaningless work are correlated enough to force a choice between them. Why do you think this choice is something we will face?