Knowing your role too well . . .

[Funkenstein]

"We are the firemen of the tech world. We put out the fires and rescue the people trapped in tough spots. The only difference is that when real firemen sit around and wait for a fire nobody complains, but we are penalized and our numbers shrink becuase there are fewer fires. People are reassigned and fired, then we are told we arent putting out the fires right with half as many people as when we had "too many"."

- Seth Unknown

This was sent to me by a co-worker (since we are about to go through our umpteenth re-org during the past 6 months) and it's true to a tee.

Any of you other tech field folks feel this way? Thoughts? Comments?

[Ash]

when I plateau in my current skillset, I get the fuck out and move on, either to a different position or company. Experience is important, but stagnation is career euthanasia

[PETA]

the hope regarding rescue type personel is for them to be irrelevent

[hepkatmama]

move forward
evolve
adapt in the direction you want to be.

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[my role is as graveyard shift fortune cookie writer.]

[Sir Meh]

Originally Posted by Ash

when I plateau in my current skillset, I get the fuck out and move on, either to a different position or company. Experience is important, but stagnation is career euthanasia

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[Arlen Specter]

Originally Posted by Ash

when I plateau in my current skillset, I get the fuck out and move on, either to a different position or company. Experience is important, but stagnation is career euthanasia

Originally Posted by hepkatmama

move forward
evolve
adapt in the direction you want to be.

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[my role is as graveyard shift fortune cookie writer.]

This is something I hope to accomplish within the next 3-24 months.