sometimes you have to wear a lot of hats #techjobs #techcareer

10 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker describes the reality of working on a very small community team where a single person must juggle several distinct responsibilities. He recounts a recent conversation with a founder friend who noted that he seems to have four or five different jobs. The speaker illustrates this by mentioning three concrete tasks he performed within a short time frame: collaborating with a colleague named Brianna to review content and copy for a conference handout destined for a Mexico event, and then immediately joining a strategic call about building community with Java engineers in Chicago. He emphasizes that his role requires him to be both "in the dirt"—handling tactical, day‑to‑day execution—and "in the clouds"—participating in high‑level strategic planning—simultaneously.

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I was speaking with a founder, uh, this week, just a friend of mine who's, who's a founder at a startup. And you know, he was asking, he was like, man, like, you know, I feel like you have like 4 or 5 different jobs. And I was telling him, I was like, yeah, it's crazy. Like especially with how lean the community team is, you know, one call this past week I was like on a call with Brianna, like checking the content and copy of like a handout we're going to give at a conference like, like this week's in Mexico. And then the next minute, I'm on like a strategic call with how to build community with Java engineers in Chicago. So, you know, I'm very much in the dirt and in the clouds at the same time.