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comment by Isherwood
Isherwood  ·  3375 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your greatest weakness?

I'm a builder, not a maintainer. I'll build you a new program, department, system, or structure, and when I build it I'll make sure that other people can easily learn it, maintain it, and grow it, but if you leave me to maintain what I've built, I'll do a terrible job.

It's like asking an architect to clean the windows every day. He might be able to do it for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, but that's not what he wants to do and that's not where his skills are. His skills are in designing buildings and once that's done, he moves on and practices his skills elsewhere.