Your Past Is Preparing You
There were seasons in my career that felt.. off.
Early on as a developer, I was promoted fast.
Supervisor.
Manager.
Director.
Small startup. Needed speed. I was the best option each time.
But I remember feeling torn.
Like I hadn’t finished what I needed to say as a developer.
Like I’d skipped a chapter.
So I left.
Took a role as a senior developer and architect.
At the time, it felt like stepping sideways. Maybe even backward.
That was the struggle.
Moments that felt misaligned.
Opportunities that felt premature.
Setbacks that felt frustrating.
Fast forward to now.
I’m building a product that is the sum of decades of experiences.
And the craziest thing is happening.
Nothing was wasted.
Leading agile teams?
Now we run daily standups and weekly retros across funnel builds and customer support.
Building business processes that absorb daily feedback?
That’s baked into how we ship product updates.
Choosing cloud platforms.
Monitoring virtual machine clusters.
Taking the 3:00am “the database is melting” calls.
Handling angry customer escalations.
I’ve touched everything.
I never had a narrow, specialist career.
I’ve been in the code.
In the meetings.
In the war rooms.
In the infrastructure.
And now?
Unlocks are happening daily.
When problems show up in a datacenter, I don’t panic.
I think in terms of distributed nodes.
Redundancy.
Edge execution.
When a process breaks, I don’t guess.
I’ve seen the pattern before.
Problems last minutes, not days.
And it’s not because I’m smarter.
It’s because I stayed.
In the end..
Every season deposits tools.
Even the ones that feel like detours.
Even the ones that feel like regressions.
Even the ones that sting.
You don’t need see how they connect at the time.
You'll see it when the threads weave together later.
Now, from this vantage point, purpose has never felt clearer.
And it’s all because I didn’t quit.
I believed.
Took risks.
Fought through self-doubt.
Shipped anyway.
The experience compounds.
The pattern recognition compounds.
The capacity compounds.
Nothing was wasted.
And if you stay in the game long enough..
You’ll say the same.
🚀
- James
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Your Past Is Preparing You
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