You don't have to do everything or be unique to be good at your job and add value.
A lot of tech writers rightfully point out that being irreplaceable is a bad thing. It means you're doing too much and there's not enough redundancy in the system.
"i kept this job because i have an amazing team that is agile - not bullshitting, continuous automated testing and deployments and environment builds but what do i do? i goto meetings, talk to teams, get their visions, try and distill it down to minimum viable project with tons of help from UX and my team - we try and stay small and light, so much to do and only so much time"
Those are actually difficult and important things to do. A lot of people I know struggle with those things. As someone doing a job somewhat similar to yours, I find some of those things easyish, but I realize other people can't do that kind of distillation, or they can't focus on the big picture.
Your knowledge and skillset might not be unique, but I bet you'd be *hard* to replace. Which, IMO, is preferable to the irreplaceable/all eggs in one basket scenario. It means you can take vacation...
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Date: 2014-01-08 04:35 am (UTC)A lot of tech writers rightfully point out that being irreplaceable is a bad thing. It means you're doing too much and there's not enough redundancy in the system.
"i kept this job because i have an amazing team that is agile - not bullshitting, continuous automated testing and deployments and environment builds
but what do i do? i goto meetings, talk to teams, get their visions, try and distill it down to minimum viable project with tons of help from UX and my team - we try and stay small and light, so much to do and only so much time"
Those are actually difficult and important things to do. A lot of people I know struggle with those things. As someone doing a job somewhat similar to yours, I find some of those things easyish, but I realize other people can't do that kind of distillation, or they can't focus on the big picture.
Your knowledge and skillset might not be unique, but I bet you'd be *hard* to replace. Which, IMO, is preferable to the irreplaceable/all eggs in one basket scenario. It means you can take vacation...
Hugs.