Senior work is decisions not hours

Right now senior engineer level, job already changed. You stop getting paid mainly own hours work. You get paid decisions you make systems you set up keep working even after close laptop.

An opinion share in meeting fades in week. reminder send fades in day. But decision written down, system enforces it without help, keeps working long after everyone forgot you said anything.

But if you set up routines, sanity checks, architecture decisions, automatic rules, agents etc, what sticks around continuous deliver value.