I just quit a job where I dealt with both self-managed and micromanaged roles, and I was much more productive (and better rewarded) in the self-managed one. I

I just quit a job where I dealt with both self-managed and micromanaged roles, and I was much more productive (and better rewarded) in the self-managed one. I found I'm better at managing lateral relationships, eg data-scientist to data infra, or data infra to devOps, than being micromanaged on a ticket queue. I was surprised that I enjoyed fairly mundane backup or recovery tasks, because I could see user impact directly. The micromanaged situation had strange priorities as well; the overhead of trying to figure out why we were doing so much stupid stuff just added to the frustration.