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Does this identify with you at all? - You’re checking out everyone else’s PRs and requesting changes for all the bugs you find. The few times you don’t a major
by djsamseng 4y ago
Does this identify with you at all?
- You’re checking out everyone else’s PRs and requesting changes for all the bugs you find. The few times you don’t a major outage occurs.
- Everyone’s asking you for help all the time. You actually find a way to “help” all of them but really you’re just solving their problems for them
- You say you love your job, but really it’s not like what it used to be. You’re no longer excited to be woken up at 2am to fix an outage.
- You never aimed to be here, doing this, working here. But here you are and this is now your baby.
Your baby has grown up. As long as you are here the stress will eat at you. But can I encourage you that a better life awaits you. Change will be hard, but what is waiting for you on the other side is so much better. But it takes humility, humility that “project x” will go on without you (definitely not as smoothly but others will step up to the plate). Humility to try something new where you are in the bottom 10% working your way up once again. It will feel like you’re giving up all the hard work you’ve put in, giving up what makes you king of the hill, but it’s worth it. It’s worth it because life isn’t about being king, but about the journey. Welcome to a life of freedom, of learning something new every day, of waking up each morning and diving into whatever is on your heart to discover.