I am a unicorn, as they put it in corporate terms; I can do everything from level 1 help desk to very complex network design to compliance under multiple national and international frameworks to security to contract negotiation meetings with difficult customers. And far too many more to list here.

In my field, maybe 0.0001% of people at my level have a comparable skillset. This is not (just) to toot my own horn. It’s in the service of expressing something else and that is: no matter how glorious and resplendent a unicorn you happen to be, it most often works against as you as the more you can do, the more you are expected to do.

There was an earlier post where I said I had 14 different job titles. That’s actually now (and even was then) incorrect. It’s expanded to about 22-25 and still growing.

It’s become clear that I am going to have to do something about this as it’s not sustainable, but not sure what yet.