I've been interning at a place where my manager believes that if you are in a,


product company, then you generally spend time tweaking the product and sometimes adding some features, or
service company, then you keep doing repetitive things


which makes me feel industry is no place for someone who likes to do create news things and solve difficult problems.

So is the industry not a place for a passionate programmer? Does this change from country to country?



Update to clear some things that can be understood differently than what they were meant.

Tweaking here is making sure your product has tables with the number of rows and columns the client wants, etc. Customize it for the customer.

New "feature" isn't new functionality here. Just aesthetic-level changes. And it's sometimes.

I'm not sure what he meant by repetitive though. He was like, you have to make the UI again and again every time. (I see no repetition there though. If a different UI is needed then a different UI needs to be designed. If you can use the old one then you don't need to do much anyway.)

Your manager needs a shrink ;) Or you need to be aware of tiny frogs.


  There once was a bunch of tiny frogs,... … who arranged a running
  competition.
  
  The goal was to reach the top of a
  very high tower.
  
  A big crowd had gathered around the
  tower to see the race and cheer on the
  contestants…
  
  The race began…
  
  Honestly: No one in the crowd really
  believed that the tiny frogs would
  reach the top of the tower.
  
  You heard statements such as: “Oh, WAY
  too difficult!! They will NEVER make
  it to the top.”
  
  or:
  
  “Not a chance that they will succeed.
  The tower is too high!”
  
  The tiny frogs began collapsing. One
  by one… ... Except for those who in a
  fresh tempo were climbing higher and
  higher…
  
  The crowd continued to yell “It is too
  difficult!!! No one will make it!”
  
  More tiny frogs got tired and gave up…
  
  ...But ONE continued higher and higher
  and higher…  This one wouldn’t give
  up!
  
  At the end everyone else had given up
  climbing the tower. Except for the one
  tiny frog who after a big effort was
  the only one who reached the top!
  
  THEN all of the other tiny frogs
  naturally wanted to know how this one
  frog managed to do it?
  
  A contestant asked the tiny frog how
  the one who succeeded had found the
  strength to reach the goal?
  
  It turned out… That the winner was
  DEAF!!!!
  
  The wisdom of this story is:
  
  Never listen to other people’s
  tendencies to be  negative or
  pessimistic… …cause they take your
  most wonderful dreams and wishes away
  from you.
  
  The ones you have in your heart!
  
  Always think of the power words have. 
  Because everything you hear and read
  will affect your actions!
  
  Therefore:
  
  ALWAYS be…
  
  POSITIVE!
  
  And above all:
  
  Be DEAF when people tell YOU that YOU
  can not fulfil YOUR dreams! Always
  think:
  
  I can do this!


That version of this well known story can be found here in its context.
