I love management, and I've been approaching it like I've approached programming for a decade and a half. I mostly read business books these days, subscribe to

I love management, and I've been approaching it like I've approached programming for a decade and a half. I mostly read business books these days, subscribe to business/leadership podcasts & newsletters, and so on. I even used my training budget to take a one-day leadership course at the Disney Institute, which was really helpful because they were honest about the challenges running such a big organization, working with thousands of employees and a bunch of unions. I feel like I'm facing a new set of challenges, very different ones than I did as a programmer. I'm dealing more with keeping clients happy, and I'm great at keeping honest communication going between programmers and non-technical stakeholders because I'm used to living in both worlds. And since I spent so long as a programmer, I love he opportunities I get to challenge my team and help them grow their careers - opportunities I often didn't get when my career was starting out. Not writing code all day at work has made programming fun for me again, too. I used to dread writing code in the morning and I was seriously considering changing careers. Now, I open up VS Code after my kid goes to bed and I actually enjoy it, even if what I'm working on never gets seen by anybody but me.