Great question. I do like coding, and will definitely continue working on my side projects. Although programming pays quite well, I'm not sure of the long term

Great question. I do like coding, and will definitely continue working on my side projects. Although programming pays quite well, I'm not sure of the long term payoffs of continuing as a programmer (unless you are one of the Linus Torvalds, or in a similar league - which I am no where close to). Longer term: I do want to get to a point in my career where I would like to influence product strategy (focus on the whys) a s a VP of Product Management vs. VP of Engineering. If you have a complete different outlook to this, please let me know.