I’ve been working a lot longer. But really only started focusing on my career in 2012. Get off the hedonic treadmill or never get on it. I’ve done my stint i

I’ve been working a lot longer. But really only started focusing on my career in 2012. Get off the hedonic treadmill or never get on it. I’ve done my stint in BigTech. But I’m good with the very high end of “enterprise dev” comp. Sure, but look at what they’re doing. Are they in the same salary band, same basic job description they were in ten years ago? This described me from 2002 (5 years into my career) until 2014. My compensation was basically stagnant all those years inflation adjusted. I spent a lot of that time until around 2012-2014 as an “expert beginner”. By 2014, I knew the only way to move up and stay competitive was to lead projects, start dealing with architecture and get closer to “the business”. In 2020, I pivoted to cloud consulting specializing in app dev and was working more on strategy than tactics and became more customer focused. By “consulting” I don’t mean “staff augmentation”. I can easily see myself doing the same thing 5-10 years from now. The technology will change. But the focus on strategy and adding business value won’t I’m not saying “learn cloud”. I am saying do something that involves dealing with decision makers and helping companies use technology to create business value. Don’t be a ticket taker. https://www.seangoedecke.com/party-tricks/ https://www.seangoedecke.com/party-tricks/