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I'm a generalist too, or as someone else put it - a serial specialist. You could just stagnate until you retire. That's basically what I'm doing, but for slightly different reasons.

Promotions and ratings at my company are very subjective and political. I've had quite a few people over the past 4 years thinking that I was a level higher than I actually am (I'm a dev, people have even mistaken me a tech lead), one of them even offered me a next level position. The subject and technology were not interesting and it was a dead end career-wise (prior to my acceptance ofstagnation). But I have also had a couple of managers that say stuff like 'not everyone has the potential to get to the next level' or 'I hired you because I could see you being a senior dev or tech lead in a couple years, but I don't think that anymore'.

Basically, you might be better off just accepting that you hit your peak and enjoy the brief moments that you find yourself doing something interesting rather than torment yourself with looking for the next promotion or change.



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