Then again, I keep interviewing people with 5-10 years of experience, who will go something like this:
> How would you manage a server? (leaving out a ton of context about what it means to "manage a server")
> Very easy, SSH connection is very fast, reliable, ...
> Awesome, love me some SSH, how about 5 servers?
> Hmm, probably write shell scripts.
> How about 50 servers?
> Shell scripts?
> Even with 500 servers?
> Hire more people..?
And I keep feeling that these people don't have 10 YoE, they have 1-2 YoE times some coefficient.
I feel like if you're in a "successful rut", that's what it will do to you. You feel like you're successful, but in fact, you have fallen horribly behind, without even knowing it.
Your quality of life is probably fine, until you're laid off one day.