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communication is probably the most important skillset in any organisation and 9 months of interim work is not sufficient enough for you to realize it.

so this reads like any other salty engineer who thinks he's smarter than everyone in the org, business people are useless and if only he would yield decision power, all issues would be solved immediately.

but guess what, it's usually not true and that mindset is usually not good to collaborate with either.

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I guess actually delivering work according to specifications and making both stakeholders and customer's lives easier is never gonna be good enough for the peanut gallery.

And it's not about having "decision power", whatever that means. I was there to collaborate, listen, document, communicate down and deliver. And I did. I got my raise, my team got raises, projects were completed, management was happy, customers are using it to this day.

I wanted to be in control of my career and my output like the article describes. For nine months, I was.

Everything else is bullshit rationalization.

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