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I've been a project manager for nearly 20 years after "hanging up my technical boots" and trust me it's the same shit for us as well - quietly get on with it, m

I've been a project manager for nearly 20 years after "hanging up my technical boots" and trust me it's the same shit for us as well - quietly get on with it, manage the challenges and the team, anticipate and deal with the problems upfront? You are an unremarkable "safe pair of hands". Run around panicking with your arse on fire constantly firefighting issue after issue (almost all of which you should have anticipated and already dealt with) making your constantly "red" project go "green"? You're a fucking hero that wins any internal little award/prize for rescuing the project. Still annoys the crap out of me after 20 years.

toyg 3y ago
Now apply that principle to politics: representatives who actually work to, uh, represent their districts, tend to quietly go about their business and are rarely promoted. To get promoted you need headlines, which you won't get if you're actually good at your job.
- runnerup 3y ago
  How does a senator get promoted?
  - novok 3y ago
    Power broker, party positions of influence, special committee positions, 'speaker of the house' or become president.
novok 3y ago
Depends on the buyer. Many avoid GCP because of a perceived lack of policy / customer service reliability.