I used to work with a guy who was amazing with makefiles. After being burned once, ne made damn sure nobody at his new job knew about it.

You know that you've matured in this business when you can feel no guilt when denying knowledge about something that you're an expert in.

Yeah, it sucks. I have strong opinions about how to improve our ops, and the knowledge/skills to do it, but there is no way I'm going to get stuck as being the ops guys.

Unless that's the job they hired you to do, and it's in your job title...

As a fulltime ops/deployment person, I haven't written any real software in over 4 years and long to go back to it.

Of course I'm solving real and challenging problems, but the skills that got me here in the first place are dying on the vine.

Also, on top of that, I'm "the cloud/networking/debugging guy" for about 150 engineers. It's annoying. I want to turn off Slack.

That goes without saying doesn’t it?