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by business_colby 3850 days ago
Yep, I find myself in a somewhat similar situation. I'm a business analyst who taught myself enough front-end skills to build a JS app that replaces an old legacy application we have. The result saved us dev resources(because it completely avoided the standard waterfall timeline), but has now given way to "if we don't have dev resources, let's give this task to him."

Which is fine, but the tasks that go down that path aren't really enough to point me toward a full-time dev gig. So I'm in a weird middle ground between being a PM/BA/Developer without acquiring full experience in any of the three roles right now.

That being said, if I had to do it again I'd do the same thing. Just not sure how to navigate out of it.