I have had many different gigs over my lifetime.
Each of them has some aspect that is slightly or even radically different than past gigs but all of them share a common trait. I have to learn something new in order to perform my duties.
I keep a daily log on an internal wiki at AWS. It helps me find stuff since it is searchable and I since it's by day I can recall stuff on the calendar but get the link to the doc from my log. With the amount of meetings and papers that go around - I need to be able to index my days. So far it has been quite simple, but useful.
Let's list what is stretching me at AWS:
Each of them has some aspect that is slightly or even radically different than past gigs but all of them share a common trait. I have to learn something new in order to perform my duties.
I keep a daily log on an internal wiki at AWS. It helps me find stuff since it is searchable and I since it's by day I can recall stuff on the calendar but get the link to the doc from my log. With the amount of meetings and papers that go around - I need to be able to index my days. So far it has been quite simple, but useful.
Let's list what is stretching me at AWS:
- Managing scale businesses - the scale is astonishing
- Managing large teams across APJ with the scale issue in mind
- Range of day to day complexities - mostly back to the scale issue
- Defining strategy knowing that even small changes can have massive impacts - both good & bad
- Staying focuses on the customer when scale almost always gets in the way
- Improving my writing - but always discovering someone is way better at it than me
For sure I am learning lots of new tricks and also coming to grips with how much I don't know. Which is a lot.
My advice is discover what you can learn in any gig and make the most of it.