At an old job, I automated my job, asked for more responsibilities, automated my little team's work, asked for more responsibilities, then automated those. The

At an old job, I automated my job, asked for more responsibilities, automated my little team's work, asked for more responsibilities, then automated those. Then Legal said I had too much access for a level N employee, and essentially revoked my ability to work on anything new. My manager was great, and did his best to promote me to level N+2, which should have given me rights to access that data. This took 6 months, during which I taught myself Lisp and Machine Learning. Then I automated all the new stuff I had access to within 2 weeks (including solving a project that had been estimated to take 11 people over two years.) Then I was told it would take another 6 months to get access to anything else. Four weeks later, I left for my first ML job and never looked back.