> don't fool yourself into thinking they are gold currency on the job market.
I must have gotten lucky then because I’ve built most of my career off my incredible troubleshooting capacity and my communication capability.
I’m not earning Silicon Valley money (because thankfully I don’t live there) but I’m at the top end for salaries in my country. I out earn the vast majority of devs/devops people I know.
Maybe it’s a bit unfair though because I troubleshoot at a very different level to most I suspect.
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Or maybe I’ve been applying the wrong word to what I do my entire career…or misunderstanding why I’m valued. This is more possible than it might seem.
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For further context, i've held a wide variety of positions now within IT, including executive management. The problem is still, and I know this will sound stupid, I don't know how it is I got here, or why people valued me enough to keep me promoting me. I never even asked for the promotions they just...happened. This has made applying for new jobs harder, because I've never actually been entirely sure what my value is, so I often take jobs that are lower than my last job, but then everytime its not long before I end up well above that again.
I eventually assumed it must be my troubleshooting capacity. I asked a CEO I worked with once at a smaller startup why it is he kept promoting me, and I got this story about how by just being in the room, everyone around me wants to do better work. Not because they are being told to do so, but because the work I do apparently just inspires people around me to do better. I was the truest example he had seen apparently of 'lead by example.'
It's been very problematic because despite earning good money, and having never struggled to find, retain or advance in a job, I still don't truely know what it is exactly i'm good at.
I think im terrible at explaining this. Every time I have tried to talk to someone about it in real life they just end up telling me I have impostor syndrome. Of course I do, I don't really know what the fuck it is I do.
I must have gotten lucky then because I’ve built most of my career off my incredible troubleshooting capacity and my communication capability.
I’m not earning Silicon Valley money (because thankfully I don’t live there) but I’m at the top end for salaries in my country. I out earn the vast majority of devs/devops people I know.
Maybe it’s a bit unfair though because I troubleshoot at a very different level to most I suspect.
edit
Or maybe I’ve been applying the wrong word to what I do my entire career…or misunderstanding why I’m valued. This is more possible than it might seem.
edit
For further context, i've held a wide variety of positions now within IT, including executive management. The problem is still, and I know this will sound stupid, I don't know how it is I got here, or why people valued me enough to keep me promoting me. I never even asked for the promotions they just...happened. This has made applying for new jobs harder, because I've never actually been entirely sure what my value is, so I often take jobs that are lower than my last job, but then everytime its not long before I end up well above that again.
I eventually assumed it must be my troubleshooting capacity. I asked a CEO I worked with once at a smaller startup why it is he kept promoting me, and I got this story about how by just being in the room, everyone around me wants to do better work. Not because they are being told to do so, but because the work I do apparently just inspires people around me to do better. I was the truest example he had seen apparently of 'lead by example.'
It's been very problematic because despite earning good money, and having never struggled to find, retain or advance in a job, I still don't truely know what it is exactly i'm good at.
I think im terrible at explaining this. Every time I have tried to talk to someone about it in real life they just end up telling me I have impostor syndrome. Of course I do, I don't really know what the fuck it is I do.