(side note: Live in central Europe.) Background: 1. education - mix telco and software engineering -> would change - got to just one specialization : software

(side note: Live in central Europe.) Background: 1. education - mix telco and software engineering -> would change - got to just one specialization : software eng. 2. education (continued) - business and economics -> let it the same. It got me a lot. General overview about world, business, management etc. Career: 1. Almost 9 years in IT business 2. My main issue is switching position and domains -> good and bad, unfortunately I don't know if I would change it. --> Good is that I have wide range of skills and knowledge. I can transfer and share them in different environments, detect hidden issues, suggest improvements. It proves my flexibility. I observed I like teaching, explaining, drawing, solving puzzles and real-life issues. --> Bad is that level of my deep expertize is nowhere. I am just another generalist. (Un)fortunately I found out that I hate management jobs where I had to chase people, reply to silly emails, escalation, read and rewrite reports and send to upper layer. Personal communication is other story. I love discussing with people about real-life/business issues and bring solutions. 3. I have tried 4 various 9-5 positions - telco, software (QA), networking (security), customer contracts management (current, non-technical, boring but well paid). Salary is raising with switching. For me 2-3 years in one company is enough. Usually, there are no option for rapid pay-rise. -> let it the same. It is the easies way how to get higher salary. 4. I have wrote 3 technical books. Good just for reference and bonus points in my CV. Get to interview is much easier. Downside is huge time consumption. --> Change it , i wouldn't do it again, at least not 3-times. It took me around 1000 hours/book with around 0.15 cents in revenue per book. 5. Almost all jobs were my own success in hiring process. --> Would change it. I would do more networking with people. It's much easier to get interesting job when you know right people. Everything publicly available is rubbish which closed-groups filtered - jobs, real estates, cars. 6. I would work less and spent more time with hobby and personal development - rhetorics, art of problem solving, story-telling... 7. I would work less and spent more time to develop relationship with spouse. 8. I have own company for side projects and some additional income -> let it the same All in all...I am satisfied with it as it is. Despite of issues. I observed one sad thing. I always will know what was wrong in my current way. I will have list of thing I would did differently. But this is useless due to few reasons: 1. If life would go different way, I would have different experiences, different issues but still the same mind. So in results I would be in the same situation thinking what I would did differently. 2. It doesn't matter what I did and didn't, there are and always will be things which are good and sucks. All my decisions were made based on my mental state, experiences, desires, expectation etc. 3. Bad things moves me forward since. So without bad things I would be there where I am now.