Thought of the day - how to market my skills. After working for the same company for 13 years, through acquisitions and mergers, I am less than thrilled to stick around much longer, although for the purposes of pure fiat mining, it isnt bad. Still, the company is woke, and there's only so much bullshit I can stand.

but if I'm going to move, then how? I started as a technical engineer - someone who was technical enough to be good at installing software on servers, and could also handle database upgrades and other systems challenges. I've got a CS degree, and later an MIS. I've written a lot of Powershell code to get things done. I'm great at problem solving, automating, standardizing, and process improvement overall.

But I'm not a dev. not a full stack anything. not really a codemonkey, although if I look at your code, in any language, I can sort out what it does and probably make tweaks to it. Been doing that since 1996.

I'm not a DBA, although I've created, moved, upgraded, and maintained 100s if not 1000s of enterprise application databases, and I'm not afraid to write and run SQL from scratch.

If I were really starting over, or starting now, I would probably be looking at DevOps, but it seems like a huge step backward at this point.

I'm not a UX designer, product manager, or support tech, although I've done some of all of those things.

I'm an engineer. I like servers. I'm not picky about OS or language. I can lead a team, or be a contributor. Right now I'm leading a team that handles HR document ingestion and export, and also handling the custom aspects of that process - because no-one else on the team is creative enough to try and build custom solutions.

I'm solid at documentation, organization, and seeing the business and big picture aspects of what I am doing. I tend to take on more work than my peers, because I am organized enough to hamdle it, and will find ways to pipeline and automate enough to optimize for scale - so give me 10 similar tasks and I will do them all together, rather than one after another, and get them done faster (eventually) than the guy doing one task, because I'm optimizing as I go.

My title has been Technology Consultant for some time now, I am billed out at a higher rate than my doctor or lawyer.

And the job market has been very hard to navigate and find the type of work that I excel at; so much has been obsoleted by Cloud and other advancements in tech.. Also I think the things I do are hidden in other roles, rather than being a role of its own.

Also, I like working for the man. I've been self-employed before, and I would rather have the security of a salary, health insurance and some management structure. I'm not much of an entreprenuer either. I'm better at gradual incremental improvement than imagining a complete new product.

Just some thoughts. If some head hunter is monitoring this, I'm available for a price. Anyone with ideas, happy to shoot them down (because that is how I adopt them, being disagreeable).

love you #nostr fam. just a little more of who I am.