Sometimes it feels that the more you know about "the system" as a whole, rather than your section, the less likely you are to be pigeon-holed into one role or another.
This can be both a positive and a negative - your career won't follow the normal "developer to senior developer to team lead" path, but you will end up being given tasks as a developer that would normally be assigned to someone with a much more senior job title would get.
The negative is that getting paid for your extra knowledge is extremely hard, and your extra knowledge it worth much less outside of your industry (or even outside your building), so moving jobs won't help so much.
This can be both a positive and a negative - your career won't follow the normal "developer to senior developer to team lead" path, but you will end up being given tasks as a developer that would normally be assigned to someone with a much more senior job title would get.
The negative is that getting paid for your extra knowledge is extremely hard, and your extra knowledge it worth much less outside of your industry (or even outside your building), so moving jobs won't help so much.