Career (2 blogmarks)

If you’re valued, you’ll likely see a clear path for advancement and development, you might get more strategic roles and involvement in key decisions. If you are just useful, your role might feel more stagnant.

I’m thinking of one role in particular where I was useful, but not valued. I was one of the more competent and senior people on the dev team, but I wasn’t part of strategic conversations and leadership wasn’t investing in me. I wanted to do important, valuable things, but it wasn’t an option. It was a bummer.

I was in a role earlier in my career where I kept getting more responsibilities and opportunities and significant raises, but it wasn’t until a couple jobs later that I realized how valued I was there. Part of why I didn’t realize is because leadership didn’t express it beyond the above.

This article was shared with me by Jake Worth.

A one-year retrospective of Phil Eaton’s time at EnterpriseDB and the way he made his own path into database development to get there.