Having been in multiple companies and maintained various systems/platforms for end users’ daily work for several years, I came to realize that the most popular tools share much in common to meet the general (most cases similar) needs from end users, whether it’s communication with MS Teams or Slack, cloud collaboration with sharepoint or google drive, etc. As general system/platform maintenance personel, knowing how each system/platform works should be the foundation but more important is how to help users work more efficiently with the functions each system/platform provides.
Previously the plan for my future career development was to become very professional in specific field, so I went to the trainings and took various exams for the certification to prove that I can do something I have not even done in daily work. That’s still a good career path for some people, or certain people, but for me for now, it seems only being very professional in specific fields is not enough any more and knowing how to organize the available resources to provide better and more efficient solutions for the end users looks more challenging and attractive to me.
Of course that means firstly I need to be familiar enough to our tools available and what can be achieved and what can not, or what is doable at what kinds of cost, etc. All these things should be considered thoroughly when we consider projects or changes.
Maybe it’s similiar to life as well. We plan for something and then when we finally reach to or amlost get what we want, things have changed and what we planed for might not work to us any more and we are ready for something different to better fit the environment and future development. Changing frequently seems not a good thing from tranditional thoughts which value being stable and unchanged quite a lot, but things are changing, and so should we and our plan. What can be changed and what we should stick to will make each of us different from others and that will finally define our life and the meaning of our life.