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> there's not really any such thing except in our heads

I disagree. When my father's used car lot went under, that was a massive failure of planning and leadership, sending my family into a financial spiral with effects felt for decades. There was no upside here. Hell, he ended up in jail briefly as a result of the debacle. There's definitely such a thing as failure.

That said, I agree that the poster's mindset seems to be doing them no favors here. Sounds like they've always been paid, they've done good work, they've broadened and deepened their engineering experience. As long as they can still find a job there are worse things than this kind of failure.

> Also in a week you might wake up and find out you have cancer and you will just be sick for the rest of your life and never work on anything ever again, forget about the past, forget about the stress and feeling of being angry or unjustly treated and just be who you want to be today, and make everyone else believe it too.

this hit hard, and for me it just proves how much harder i should work on things I care about, and not what the next clown wants me to accomplish for them

One of the best comments I've read on this site, and I wholeheartedly agree.

Narratives and emotions run the world. Engineering / facts only come into play when there's liability to kill people or lose investors money.