I also want to echo this. For me, it’s examples like yours that I live by. It seems like the right thing to do, naturally. Teaching people and sharing knowledge is the often the most rewarding part of my career at a personal level but it is hard to reconcile when it often comes at the cost of my own progression/productivity. I’m spending most of my time helping everyone else be more productive. How’d you end up working through that?

I had a similar experience in the Legal field of all things. I was only a few years in, so could still relate to and be approachable by newbies. I kept my door open (we had our own offices too!) and folks would wander in with questions all day that I would answer.

The result was that my annual review was meh. They recognized and appreciated my work helping the department as a whole, but my individual metrics were lacking.

As I had a family to feed, I just started keeping my door closed and cranking out my own work. My reviews then imporoved. I realized that the large law firm just didn't have a system in place to reward the work I was previously doing, so I adjusted to what they wanted. "There is no spoon." :-)

Unfortunately I am in the middle of central New York, but I sent you an email anyways, just to say thanks for what you have done and continue to do!