Seems to me that most technical people in this business have no career strategy. They settle into a job and inertia takes hold, and a body at rest tends to stay at rest until a force is applied to move it. So they will sit their butt in a seat and be underutilized, and perform mind numbing work, with a nagging voice in their head telling them that their tech muscles are experiencing atrophy, but yet still they stay put until the bitter end.