What keeps work interesting at the beginning of your career isn’t necessarily what keeps it interesting years later. Responsibility changes. Experience grows. And the challenges that once felt new make way for different ones.
We asked Mitiku, Wafae and Jonas what that looks like at different stages of a career at Leadout. Their answers were different, but they pointed to the same thing: growth doesn’t stop with experience. It changes with it.
When responsibility comes before confidence
For Mitiku, that growth is happening through experience. Working across different client situations has meant learning to trust his judgment, take initiative and become more comfortable speaking up when something needs attention.
“I feel like I’m going from crawling to walking to running. I’m not running yet. But I can feel it happening.”
That progress is part of what keeps the work engaging. But gaining confidence doesn’t mean the challenges disappear. With experience, they simply start to look different.
When experience meets something unfamiliar
For Wafae, that means being able to rely on her expertise without relying on familiar answers. When a new compliance policy transformed the way a client needed to manage its software lifecycle, an established area of expertise suddenly became a much broader transformation challenge.
“We really got out of our comfort zone. And in the end, it was super interesting to do something completely different that was still highly related to our day-to-day job.”
It is exactly that combination that keeps the work interesting, having the experience to know where to start, while still encountering situations that require you to adapt, rethink and learn.
And with greater experience comes another shift. Growth becomes less about proving what you can do and increasingly about what you can shape around you.
When experience becomes visible impact
For Jonas, growth increasingly comes from seeing his expertise create value beyond the work itself. It is not only about solving the challenge in front of him, but seeing an approach, process or idea continue to make a difference and give others something to take further.
“The most rewarding part is seeing something you built continue to create value. When a process or tool you introduced is adopted across the organisation, or colleagues build on something you created, you know you’ve left your mark.”
At this stage, growth takes on a broader meaning, using experience to create something that lasts, while giving others the opportunity to develop it further.
What changes and what stays
For Mitiku, it is confidence. For Wafae, stretching established expertise. For Jonas, turning experience into lasting impact.
At Leadout, growth doesn’t have one definition. It evolves with you.
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