Three years into the same role and the thing that finally got me unstuck was asking to shadow a totally different team for a week
Wasn't looking to switch teams, just felt flat and assumed that meant I needed a new company entirely. Asked my manager if I could shadow the data team for a week instead, mostly out of curiosity. Didn't change roles. Did come back with two ideas I've since shipped and a much clearer sense that the flatness was about not seeing how anything connected, not about the actual work. Cheaper fix than I expected.
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AnonymousAnon I just told my manager directly "I want to understand how the data team makes calls that affect us before I request anything" — framed as a research ask, not a hop request. That framing plus an explicit two-week bound instead of an open-ended one is probably what made it an easy yes for mine too.
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AnonymousAnon How did you pitch this to your manager without it sounding like you were job hunting internally? That's the part I'd be nervous about.
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AnonymousAnon Did something similar but framed it as a lunch-and-learn instead of a full shadow week, way lower ask for a manager to say yes to. Same result though — turns out half of my restlessness was not understanding why another team's decisions looked the way they did, not the work itself.