proficiency

The Asset Manager firm, that had put me on the back burner because they had found a powershell wizard, did not end up hiring that guy. in his second interview, i suspect they found he was not quite the guru he had claimed to be, because the recruiter that got me the interview there, called me and asked if i was still available in case they wanted to take a contractor on board, and then see how it goes hiring a permie. 

I am not special, but i dont bullshit in interviews either. if someone asks me how i am at powershell i say i am OK, but not expert. i can get my head around scripts and paste bits together from github or stack overflow to make it do what i want. 

i have worked in a lot of places, and i compare myself to the best people i have seen doing powershell, and i am not on their level and can admit it. I suspect some people have only worked within their own firms or in a couple of places and then think because they know more than anyone else at their firm, they must be great. 

if you play football in the park with only your friends, you might be one the best players, but it does not mean you are anywhere near a top level baller. its when you play with real talented players, that you can measure where you are. 

I have worked with AWS experts and powershell experts and Linux experts and Messaging experts and lots of people who are way more skilled than i am in each of those skills. what i bring is that i know a bit about a lot of stuff.  its like the person i mentioned in my last post who put up a website giving arbitrary percentage scores of his own proficiency in various tech. 95% proficient in Kubernetes, you say?. not thought of actually taking the certified Kubernetes exam though, have you?. why take exams when you can just give yourself a score!. 

will see if the recruiter manages to convince the AM firm to take me on as a contractor whilst they search for a permie that knows everything about everything. the AM firm seem a little unrealistic as well. they seem to want a powershell guru, and a SQL guru and were asking me about routing protocols and Network OSI layers. i know a bit about all those things, but they seem to want a world champion. 

hopefully i get to escape my current place soon. its a new year. hopes are high.