Nobody ever got a promotion, or hired, by using boring tech. I have a feeling that I don't get many replies to job applications because the vast majority of wo

Nobody ever got a promotion, or hired, by using boring tech. I have a feeling that I don't get many replies to job applications because the vast majority of work I've done is "boring", and the majority of open source code I've written is shell scripts. It all works fantastic, and has zero bugs and maintenance cost, but it's not sexy. Intellectual elitism has also defined my role ("DevOps Engineer" is literally just a "Sysadmin in the cloud", but we can't say that because we're supposed to be embarrassed to administrate systems); I'm fairly confident if my resume was more "Go and Rust" than "Python and Shell", I'd get hired in a heartbeat.