> It sounds like maybe you do know what your goals are, you just aren't sure how to get there? I kinda know the direction in which i want to proceed, but as yo

> It sounds like maybe you do know what your goals are, you just aren't sure how to get there? I kinda know the direction in which i want to proceed, but as you said i do not know the how! Actually, i am lost on my next steps - caught up between a craving for mastery and moving to the next phase of my career which might involve handling people. > I am skeptical automation will make all jobs redundant. Someone needs to figure out what to do, for example; there's no way a computer can do requirements gathering, or UI design, or process improvements. Exactly! But at present, in bigger corporations - the "what to do" requirements gathering is done by sales interactions and customer feedback / requests - which makes the techies redundant in the chain. I read elsewhere that some big university is researching on generating code from code by using code snippets from open source - if this successfully gets implemented then tech jobs would become difficult to find - just sharing a thought!