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My experience has been that once you're completely competent in your job, that's the job your stuck with. You can try to grow into other areas (and end up doing
by jrwoodruff 16y ago
My experience has been that once you're completely competent in your job, that's the job your stuck with. You can try to grow into other areas (and end up doing 3 people's jobs) or apply for different positions but you're out of luck since you've become a 'key employee.' Whether that's bad management or my inability to play office politics, it's happened more than once.
Which made it time to leave.
- hvs 16y agoI've generally found that once an employee is completely competent (or exceptional) at their job, they are promoted to manager where they are miserable or ineffective. It's called "the Peter Principle," and it is disturbingly common in the technology world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
- robin_reala 16y agoAs an employee you don’t have to accept those promotions. You can push to expand your role in engineering instead.
- zeemonkee 16y agoProvided your company is far-sighted enough to pay you according to your ability, not your managerial rank. For most the money is too good to turn down.
- robin_reala 16y agoThe one time I’ve been in that situation I’ve ended up leaving that company and taking a much better paid engineering role at a different one :)