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The sad truth is that no one is getting a promotion to staff for just maintaining a service.

I wish this wasn’t so. At a previous job I had a VP tell me that my team was like a public utility and I took that as a compliment. Later my boss explained they were saying that they only noticed my team when something was broken. Sort of explained my lack of career progression in retrospect.



They could outsource this to someone only too grateful to keep it running for less than the cost of an internal engineer


This is where you start your own company and sell "maintenance" to your company you work for.




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