Figure out what your destination is

I love Mahabharatha and all its characters. You can derive many parallels to your day-to-day work. Each character is either a design pattern or an anti-pattern. Lord Krishna makes a remarkable statement - "The river's final destination is the ocean, no matter how many big mountains are on its way". Each person has to figure out how to reach there. Pardon me if I am being too philosophical...

I think this particular sermon from Lord Krishna is the right message for IT Engineers who are working on huge projects (>100 members) and who feel restricted by the "policies/guidelines", that the projects enforce on them. 

If you know your destination, the "project bureaucracy" is just one more big mountain for you to cross. 

Are you getting bored with your mundane Java coding job? Figure out what your destination is. If your destination is to become one of those "programmers who earn more than a CEO", then the mundane coding that you are doing is probably adding up to the "10,000 hour rule"

Are you getting bored with the data modeling work? Figure out what your destination is. All you have to do is to find out learning opportunities to perform more work on data side, which might include integration or mining or visualization or many more..

Just figure out what your destination is and things will get lined up. If it still doesn't line up, then you are definitely not in the right place.