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On Being Indispensable

by @SoFuckingAgile sofuckingagile.com published 2022-11-26

It took far too long for it to click in my brain that I was stuck. There was no career path. Sure my title changed, pay went up, but my day-to-day never changed. I was so busy collaborating with dozens of people across all departments, that it felt like I was growing. I wasn’t.

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