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I feel like in my time we wanted to learn everything. These days people don't find as much value learning everything and prefer as little new knowledge as poss

• BeetleB 7y ago
  In the current time, there's a lot more to learn. Few people are going to hire you based on your expertise in bash or UNIX command line utilities.
  • wolco 7y ago
    It's a skill that will get you out of trouble, allow you to do things others can't and because of that it might get you promoted which will get you hired.
    • BeetleB 7y ago
      In my experience, while what you say is true, if I were to rank the skills that "might get me promoted", there are far too many that are way higher than this. Conversely, look around you at those who are at your "level" in the company, or at tech people who are higher than your level. How hard is it to find someone who does not use sed, awk, cut, etc?
      • wolco 7y ago
        I've always been a senior developer at the highest level at where ever I've worked. No one I've worked with over the years has ever used those tools. I do and it gives me an edge in response time. But if you want to move up. Everyone role above senior developer involves dealing with people/managing projects. Those skills get people promoted. More tech skills don't.
        • BeetleB 7y ago
          >Those skills get people promoted. More tech skills don't. Which was my point. But frankly, even if I were to rank the tech skills that can get someone promoted, expertise in sed/awk is pretty low.