Work are pushing me to “leave my comfort zone” /u/JustSomeGuy_You_Know CSCQ protests reddit

I’m in the UK. I graduated a good university with a Mathematics degree. During the course of my degree I took a mathematical programming module and taught myself some javascript and React. This was enough for me to get hired straight out of uni by a large-ish consultancy for a great training programme. I then got put on a web dev project for a long-standing client, and have been on that same project ever since for the last 2 years.

7 months ago, I moved about a 4 hour drive away from my office and my line manager said they thought this would be fine as long as I visited the office every now and then for reviews and such (like twice a year) although my role is technically hybrid.

However, since then I have been moved to a new line manager who is putting pressure on me to “be seen” and do more stuff for the company outside of the project like give talks to the other developers. I enjoy my work on the project and am contributing a lot considering that I’m still a pretty junior developer, but I don’t feel like I have enough technical expertise to warrant giving a presentation to all the other devs. I’m also a little worried about my job security as there was a round of redundancies a couple months ago. The annoying thing is that my company is the kind of modern tech company who like to be very vague about what is expected. My manager will say things like “it would be great to see you around the office more” and I’m never sure if he actually means “you have to come to the office more often” (I’m autistic, if that helps). Has anyone ever been in a situation like this, and what did/would you do? As I see it, my options are: A) Keep my head down and keep avoiding doing pointless stuff, and hope my good work on the project saves me B) Come up with some arbitrary presentation to give to the other devs to tick that box C) Get my CV together and start applying for jobs in my area and remote-first jobs (but from what I’ve heard they’re hard to come by at the moment).

I’m in the UK. I graduated a good university with a Mathematics degree. During the course of my degree I took a mathematical programming module and taught myself some javascript and React. This was enough for me to get hired straight out of uni by a large-ish consultancy for a great training programme. I then got put on a web dev project for a long-standing client, and have been on that same project ever since for the last 2 years.

7 months ago, I moved about a 4 hour drive away from my office and my line manager said they thought this would be fine as long as I visited the office every now and then for reviews and such (like twice a year) although my role is technically hybrid.

However, since then I have been moved to a new line manager who is putting pressure on me to “be seen” and do more stuff for the company outside of the project like give talks to the other developers. I enjoy my work on the project and am contributing a lot considering that I’m still a pretty junior developer, but I don’t feel like I have enough technical expertise to warrant giving a presentation to all the other devs. I’m also a little worried about my job security as there was a round of redundancies a couple months ago. The annoying thing is that my company is the kind of modern tech company who like to be very vague about what is expected. My manager will say things like “it would be great to see you around the office more” and I’m never sure if he actually means “you have to come to the office more often” (I’m autistic, if that helps). Has anyone ever been in a situation like this, and what did/would you do? As I see it, my options are: A) Keep my head down and keep avoiding doing pointless stuff, and hope my good work on the project saves me B) Come up with some arbitrary presentation to give to the other devs to tick that box C) Get my CV together and start applying for jobs in my area and remote-first jobs (but from what I’ve heard they’re hard to come by at the moment).