Always been a "Dev"..... "Senior" is often a trap for longer hours, less pay, and more responsibility for nothing. I do like helping other people out with their code, and giving them ideas for alternative easier/better to maintain code. I love talking to our end users about their experience and needs. So often the Jira ticket isn't matching the users "Vison" (however rare users having vision is.... if you ask the right questions, they DO often know what they want, just not how they want it)

I've given lots of help in the past but my name never appeared on tickets. My green boxes were few and far between. Sadly when the redundancies came - my boxes were mostly white. Axed. So be careful!

I think "Senior" is a massive extent of skills - and most people aren't on the same page of its meaning.

Some would even say "Senior" is that grumpy old guy that over-engineers everything and shouts at the youngsters if they say he's making stuff 9/10 other dev's can't maintain even with the documentation.