From humble beginnings at an MSP, I've adventured through life as a sysadmin, into an engineer, and finally landed as a developer focused on fixing problems with automation.
The key words here are "was once"... IMHO, the most important part of the job is to break down super complicated and specific tasks to small, simple tasks.
Every task was once super complicated and specific.
The key words here are "was once"... IMHO, the most important part of the job is to break down super complicated and specific tasks to small, simple tasks.
that's another very important skill:
always keep in mind the global picture, but be able to split the problem into small simple tasks