IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Noodleface said:

A guy that works for me, if he finishes at 4:59 with a task he'll ask me what else he can do. He closes at least 50% of our tickets. Nothing wrong with it but sometimes I want to tell him to touch some grass

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I am firmly capable of talking to people. I also spent years making my own projects at my old job because I found deficiencies and corrected them. Which is how I ended up being the de facto head of product telemetry despite not even working on the product itself. As well as engineering the entire billing system end to end. Nobody tasked me with that, I just saw something that nobody was identifying as an issue and did something about it. Nonetheless every dollar of revenue we ever received since like 2020 comes solely through the billing system I created.

If you give me two tickets that I quickly identify as being simple for me to do. I will do one, then do the other one. Then I will usually chill and my natural curiosity fills in the blanks. Which is why I have a proposal to make their RBAC more coherent and automated already, and another process change to bring uniformity to some of their data management. Thankfully my new manager started the same day as me and we get along great and agree with the issues this company clearly has.

This company has a much bigger data org than my last one but they are way behind when it comes to the platform itself. So it's really my time to shine.

Good work output never comes without a toll. Some people are social cancer, others just straight up assholes (me), and others sketchy/untrustworthy. Learning to cope with that to get shit done is pretty much the way you get to be successful as a leader, especially in IT. Well adjusted people are all path of least resistance lazy types who lack the OCD or mental damage to power through work. I think we can credibly say just about everyone in this thread has at least a little mental damage, for an anecdotal example. It also makes work more interesting, in the Chinese sense of the word.