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Re:On Being Indispensable by ip26 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:05AM (#30695804)
Presumably the goal is to be nominally replaceable, but just so all-around awesome they’d be sore to lose you.

Easy, right?

Re:On Being Indispensable by scarface74 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:05AM (#30697010)
I worked at 3 companies between 2014-2020. My goal going in was to solve the set of problems I was hired to solve by the then new manager and “put myself out of job”.

Today working in a consulting department, I refuse to take on any work that may look like “staff augmentation”. I just do project based implementations with a definition of done and set aside time for training the customer.

Re:On Being Indispensable by gowld on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:44PM (#30701085)
Be the best at two things, and train someone to do the less rewarding thing while you learn a new thing.