You don’t always need to be the leader, sometimes you need to be the glue. Sometimes all your team needs is someone holding them together as they work through a tough release or deliverable. They don’t need future inspiration that will come down the road. They need someone focused on the now to get them through it.
Everything requires maintenance. Including your Career. And if you’re not maintaining any of it, you’re not building it, expanding it, and taking it as far as it can go. Do courses that excite you. Watch videos that interest you. If you leave it up to someone else, they’ll simply provide you with a book that tells you when to do something (but not push you to do it).
We’re at the beginning of AI… We have to ask for work to get done. We have to review what gets done. You can’t take what AI gives you and run with it without checking it over, it needs you to do that, you are the one who is going to take what AI is giving you and make it better. I know I have to dig more into AI, to see how it can…
If you’re not getting selected. If you’re not getting the opportunities you want. If you find yourself lacking. The only way to get there is to train better – whatever that better is, it’s the only way. And only you can do it.
No matter what you start, you will make tweaks/adjustments on the fly as you build towards your goal. Hiccups, changes, creep, advancements, the good, the bad, the ugly, everything and anything will be thrown your way and you will have to adjust on the fly. You can either get mad that you have to adjust or realize that it’s a part of everything you are doing to get better and improve at what you are…