In giving this advice is he assuming that the end goal is to garner some kind of senior technical director position at a large company? It seems to me there are a number of potential career goals one might want to maximize for. For example; job title, salary, employer, company size, or cool factor.
It's not clear to me that all of these are parallel goals. For example if all you care about it optimizing for salary then getting a job at a small obscure company is likely not the best way to go unless it's all you can swing. Likewise I can think of a few jobs that have a high "cool factor" but make it hard to break out into other areas if you ever want to change paths.
That is to say that depending on what you want you might need to go about it in a different way. The bit about learning new things though is solid advice.
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In giving this advice is he assuming that the end goal is to garner some kind of senior technical director position at a large company? It seems to me there are a number of potential career goals one might want to maximize for. For example; job title, salary, employer, company size, or cool factor.
It's not clear to me that all of these are parallel goals. For example if all you care about it optimizing for salary then getting a job at a small obscure company is likely not the best way to go unless it's all you can swing. Likewise I can think of a few jobs that have a high "cool factor" but make it hard to break out into other areas if you ever want to change paths.
That is to say that depending on what you want you might need to go about it in a different way. The bit about learning new things though is solid advice.