Clearing Your Jira Tickets Isn't Enough

I used to think being a good engineer meant being fast. Pick up a ticket, ship it, grab the next one. Repeat. My Jira board was clean. My PRs were consistent. I was, by every visible metric, doing great work. And I was completely invisible. Nobody pulled me aside and told me I was doing it wrong. That's the tricky part. Closing tickets is the job. But it's the job description, not the career path. And somewhere along the way, I started confusing the two. The moment it clicked for me About a year