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Re:Embrace the Grind by aspaceman on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:15PM (#26756857)
> And it takes a special kind of new hire to have the expertise to parachute in, recognize that work needs to be done, and then do it with little supervision.

About 6 months into a job I realized this was what I needed to do and totally cracked. Didn’t know the questions to ask or the way to learn what I needed to so I burnt out quick and quit. My fault for sure, but there was a ton of pressure to identify issues and fix them because senior people were “just too busy”.

Re:Embrace the Grind by cgriswald on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:38PM (#26757859)
I had the opposite problem. I took to it like a duck to water and then was told to stop because I had “better things to do.” When I asked what they suggested things I had already done. I become so bored it really affected my work ethic. I didn’t like that and eventually quit.