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If you get too good and maintenance, you will be that senior guy keeping thing running while junior will get to build those nice and shiny things, keeping up wi

If you get too good and maintenance, you will be that senior guy keeping thing running while junior will get to build those nice and shiny things, keeping up with latest tech and work on their job transferrable skills. It's always a dilemma: do I get good at maintenance and never be promoted to a sexy new project, because I am too good at maintaining that system, or immediately start working at new things so that I never become the maintenance guy. I think that is the dilemma which stands behind the aversion to maintenance at companies.

spockz 6y ago
This is a bit of a chicken and egg. Why should it be that seniors are the only ones keeping stuff rolling and the juniors are adding extra features? I’ve also seen the reverse happen. Senior engineers only wanting to do new stuff and juniors being tasked to do all the “boring” maintenance part. The problem is that when you consider maintenance to be the keeping running of every individual component as it is currently doing then it will be boring. If you consider maintenance the art of keeping the whole foundation geared towards being able to run smoothly and accommodating new features, now that is a challenge. :-)