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by SketchySeaBeast 2665 days ago
> You stay fresh, learning other people's ideas all the time. This contributes to longevity.

I recently moved from a dev/support combo role to more of a support one, and this really stands out to me. I'm supporting a half dozen solutions currently, and each one consists of a pile of different flavours of the month. I'm learning a ton of new technology to support the solutions, much more so than if I'd stayed on any one dev team.