How many jobs are really just One Job?

These days, none. All the executive assistants, secretaries, even the junior team members have been wiped out. I’ve had similar jobs all throughout my IT career ¹ and when I started more than 20 years ago, I had an assistant. That’d be unheard of now. I also only had 2-3 actual roles. The expectations were much smaller back then even at a similar career level.

Now I have somewhere between 20-30 roles. This seems to only getting worse. One of the reasons jobs are so much more cognitively demanding now is that most people can be ok to good at a few things, but it takes a whole different breed to be competent at 20+.

But that’s what the corporate types are demanding these days.

1. I was doing basically what I am doing now by the time I was 26.