As with everyone else, after reading I've realized I'm extremely bored at my current situation. The one thing I'm having difficulty taking away from it all is what to do about it. I work for a big company, been here for a decade, have become "The Guy" for two major product lines and have never really had a Team. In a decade I've done two...yes two projects. Each one all written by me, application code, kernel drivers, building a root file system. Hundreds upon hundreds of hours generating thousands and thousands of lines of code. I'm bored because I'm given a project and because they will not fund additional heads (I'd love just one but really should have 3 or 4) these projects take 3-5 years to complete. The beginning is interesting but after a few months it comes down to "Implement these 200 API calls" which gets old really really fast.
At a startup there are tons of tasks to get done and not enough people so you can easily jump from one area of the company to another. Your manager can say "Joe is getting board doing X, but Y needs to be done and its completely different." But what do you do when your job doesn't have other areas for you to jump to? We have different areas of the business but at this point I'd have to take a demotion to move...or become a manager and not code anymore.
I guess I've got more of a gripe than an actual comment. And I know a lot of people post about startups and small companies where change can actually occur. Sucks that I have to give up stability to get interesting work.
At a startup there are tons of tasks to get done and not enough people so you can easily jump from one area of the company to another. Your manager can say "Joe is getting board doing X, but Y needs to be done and its completely different." But what do you do when your job doesn't have other areas for you to jump to? We have different areas of the business but at this point I'd have to take a demotion to move...or become a manager and not code anymore.
I guess I've got more of a gripe than an actual comment. And I know a lot of people post about startups and small companies where change can actually occur. Sucks that I have to give up stability to get interesting work.