Not software dev, but when I was a land surveyor for a civil engineering firm I got poached internally because I was doing loads of field surveying but I was al

Not software dev, but when I was a land surveyor for a civil engineering firm I got poached internally because I was doing loads of field surveying but I was also the only person at the company who knew anything about GPS and GIS, so they pulled me off the crew I was on and put me on the one doing all the geospatial work.