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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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   Hey guys, I love the show! Thanks so much for keeping episodes coming every week.

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   Some background:

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   I work for a small, established company based in a small city with a growing tech scene. We have about 20 employees, 5 of which make up the engineering team and it\u2019s been a great experience. My role is primarily being a full stack developer working on our web application, but since we\u2019re a small company, I\u2019ve been able to explore some other responsibilities like analyzing data for the marketing team and working with the sales staff to build custom solutions for select clients. I started working here as an intern while still in college almost 6 years ago. I feel my initial salary out of college started a bit low, but I\u2019ve received an 8-10% raise each year I\u2019ve been a full time employee (without having fight for them)\u2013so I think I\u2019m catching up.

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   My question is, will I be stunting my career or making myself seem less hirable by staying here too long? I\u2019ve clearly found a great place to work so leaving here would be difficult. I\u2019m also concerned that I\u2019m beginning to run out of skills to acquire here. It sounds easy to leave a job you hate, but how/when should you leave a job that\u2019s this good to you?

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   Hi Jamison and Dave,

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   tl;dr:

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   The role I was originally hired for is slowly being eroded - what should I do?

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   Longer version:

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   I have been working for my current company for a little over a year now.\nThings were going really well at first, I liked the team I was on, the work\n(backend) was interesting and I was learning a lot from my colleagues.

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   Unfortunately, due to corporate machinations, my team was dissolved as part\nof a reorganization and scattered to seperate, mostly frontend focused, teams.

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   Originally I was told that I would still be doing effectively the same type\nof work on my new team as on my old, and this has been mostly true. However,\nover the course of the last few weeks my new manager has gradually been\nannouncing changes in the direction the team is taking as a whole and talking\nto me specifically about working more on frontend related tasks and upskilling,\nas I have almost no frontend experience.

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   I have tried to make it clear that I have no interest in doing this but my\nmanager is still pushing for it. I am currently still doing mostly backend\nwork with a little frontend, but I feel like my days are numbered.\nThere are other teams with a more backend focus, but I feel that my manager\npartly wants to keep me in the short term for some necessary backend work and\nin the long term is hoping I will acquiesce on doing more frontend work.

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   How should I navigate this situation? It feels like I sinking in quicksand

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   Thanks

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