On the third hand, if you have some kind of career goals, then you probably want to be making some kind of progress towards them. While it&#x27;s not always possible to discuss such goals with your employer (eg. if your goal is &quot;become the CTO&quot; and your immediate manager&#x27;s goal is also &quot;become the CTO&quot; then discussing this with them is likely to end poorly), it&#x27;s important to at least let them know which direction you want to go in.<p>At my last job, I was the primary fire-putter-outer on a number of fronts, and it was very disheartening watching new projects (that I&#x27;d put my hand up for) get handed off to others while I was busy fixing up the previous efforts of said others.