Six years as an ICU nurse, and last week I was the most experienced person on an incident call for the first time
I left nursing two years ago and I'm still getting used to how fast trust builds in this job compared to healthcare. Last Thursday a payment service went down and I was the senior-most engineer on the call, mostly because everyone more experienced than me happened to be out. Three junior devs were waiting for me to say what to do next, and I had this exact same feeling I used to get running a code on the floor, except back then I actually knew what I was doing. We got to a rollback in twenty minutes and it worked, but I spent the whole retro convinced someone would ask how long I'd really been doing this. Two years in and I still catch myself translating everything back into nursing terms just to trust my own judgment.
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AnonymousAnon Does the instinct stuff actually transfer more than people expect, or does it just feel that way in the moment and then evaporate once the adrenaline wears off?
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AnonymousAnon Twenty minutes to a rollback during an actual outage isn't a fraud's timeline, that's just good incident response. The discomfort doesn't mean the competence wasn't real.