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What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 104 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Sometimes it's better if your employer doesn't know everything you can do. If you're not careful you'll end up Inventory Controller/shipper/IT services/reception/Safety officer, and you'll only ever be paid for whatever your initial position was.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wanted to be a system engineer, I got hired as a devops, I started doing a bit of system engineer, called hr and said that I'm working on infrastructure and I need my title changed or else I won't be able to continue my work, my title was changed, no I do system engineer stuff and less of devops, this was a very rare occasion but it can happen from time to time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wouldn’t DevOps pay a lot more than Infra in general? Seems to be the more in demand skillset at the moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Well it depends, I had gotten offers double and triple my yearly pay to move to the capital or go outside of my country for a system engineer position. Devops pays more in the US, for around 20-30k MORE per year, but other salaries in the US and other salaries in EU.

    Personally I like system engineer/architect jobs more, DevOps is nice but lacks creativity.

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