I saw a request for information the other day on how to be an "indispensable" employee. I'm sure most of the respondents talked about technical skill. But the real key to being indispensable is to be adaptable.
If you're adaptable, you can work on a variety of projects. You can work in different languages, on different platforms, even in different databases (!), as some examples. You're not a "GUI guy" or a "platform geek" or a "middleware marvel." You're a person who likes to contribute across the project.
That's really indispensable--someone who can contribute anywhere.
What would you have to do be adaptable? You don't have to contribute everywhere, but contributing in more than one small area would make you closer to indispensable.
