I'm basically a sysadmin, who took work doing web development to make a living. The web-work involved backend and frontend, like most web-work. In addition, I s

I'm basically a sysadmin, who took work doing web development to make a living. The web-work involved backend and frontend, like most web-work. In addition, I set up VMs, and scripts to set up VMs, and build-pipelines, and a code repository, and repository hooks to trigger builds. I never really enjoyed web-work. In the beginning, it was mainly about browser incompatibilities; then libraries like JQuery came along, rendering Javascript essentially a new language. Then the young whippersnappers on the team started dragging in things like Moustache, RoR, microservices and so on - about one new technology each month. I have reckoned that it takes me about 6 months to get good at a new language or programming paradigm. So I have no chance to become expert at everything the whippersnappers want to be using (and I reckon they don't either). I wasn't team leader or anything; I wish the bosses had stomped on the "newsness is best" thing more firmly. As it is, although my work covered the stack from top to bottom, I wasn't "full stack" because I didn't know a lot of the stuff my colleagues were using.