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This Is Not Your Last Job

Years ago, a colleague asked me why I cared about Rust when we would never use it. Part of the answer: that was not my last job.

From that perspective, I can understand why my colleague was a bit confused by my enthusiasm for a technology that looked wholly unrelated to any part of the company’s tech stack — least of all my role as a front-end web engineer. I have written tiny bits of C♯ at Olo and Java at LinkedIn, and have managed to work directly on Rust projects here and there. So even if I find that very special employer where I can continue to grow in mutually beneficial ways for the rest of my career, my role there will undoubtedly change over time.

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