Am I a team player? Sure, but in order to be an effective team player, you need to be a properly balanced person in the first place. If you aren't, you are likely to be the weak link in the chain of the team's work. So, in order to become a better professional I made myself a sidekick to assist in my job. And it all came from wanting to help others be better at their job. Like helping a friend who is a teacher by writing her a program to help deal with her administrative duties. That both helps her and gives me something to doo which I love. And with a new job coming up, and time to spend on imporovement before it started, I also wrot myself a program to help me do my job better.
Because let's face it, in our software oriented professional environment, we are constantly looking for answers in one program or the other, and you don't want to link them together in more ways than is absolutely necessary. I know working Agile will most likely mean I have to use Jira to know the tasks I have to work on, and Confluence to document things, but there is no specific tool I can use easily to keep a log of what I did when, and how long I worked on what. And yet, every week or month my employer will ask me to fill in an administrative reckoning of what I did in the past period...