[nikisweeting]

Oh I'd say in that regard we've already failed, we're not really massively profitable and not planning on getting any kind of "hockey stick" or exit. We're a slow growth services/consulting company that cares more about working on interesting fun stuff with our friends than pure profit.

I love doing the tedious devopsy/documentation/maintenance stuff that other people don't enjoy, so a lot of that stuff falls on my shoulders or gets spread around evenly so the people who don't enjoy it aren't stuck with it full-time.

When I leave, that stuff will get passed on to others, but we've built a culture around caring about tech debt and long-term health, and splitting that workload between interesting fun things and not-so-fun things, so I have faith that it won't collapse.

[tolbish]

Out of curiosity, what so intriguing about devopsy/documentation/maintenance stuff?

[nikisweeting]

I don't know but I love it! I started as a sysadmin and I like organizing and categorizing things, setting up config, writing docs, managing CI/CD systems, setting up git processes, etc. all that stuff is my jam even now that I spend most of my time managing or doing full-stack dev stuff.

[tolbish]

I could probably learn a lot from you.