I get paid to bring my knowledge and skills about computers and systems to bring business value to the company - to make them money or to save them money.

During the past decade, that has been as a “senior” employee of some sort. By senior I don’t mean just “I codez real gud”.

That has meant:

- Being on calls or flying out to a customer’s site to support sales in closing deals when I was working with B2B companies and later full time working at consulting companies.

- Interviewing candidates

- leading teams and come project management work.

- hands on keyboard coding

- DevOps [sic] setting up architecture for empty AWS accounts.

But I’m always up front about tradeoffs to management. If they want me to do one thing on the list, there is an expectation that something else on the list won’t get done. I don’t put in more than around 40 hours a week aside from the infrequent business travel.