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If I am the whole team, does the last bit still apply?
Typically you still have a manager that may not be on your team directly but they may manage you. I was an IT team of one at one point but the lead programmer to the company was the manager of my department " "
Sounds like a job I had once. Left that job after not even a year. Was not worth it for me especially since I was still early in career and was very obviously in over my head with little proper direction/leadership.
Well for me it was actually one of those jobs that helped me grow in my career. It was my first system administration job. And more important than that it was a Linux system administrator job so I learned a ton and grew a ton. It was one of the few jobs that I stayed at for as long as I did. The only reason I left was when they denied my raise to a decent pay rate. The next job I stepped into was the manager of a network operations center so it helped me grow all the way to that point.
I think for me, while I was definitely exposed to a lot of things I never touched in college, I don't think I ever really got what I needed for me in my career. I really want to avoid any manager type role as much as possible and large part of that is I'm bad at being accountable for things. I don't have good foresight and was never shown what to expect, for what to many, seems like normal things but I just take things as I get them. I work best when I'm told what to do and if I can do that as a SME who earns the dough, that's enough for me. After my (so far) one gov job, absolutely do not want any part of being in management or manager/lead type role.