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Stick it out until you become a manager of managers. Then the job gets fun again.

• mrich 8y ago
  Care to elaborate?
  • balls187 8y ago
    Several things get better: As a skip-level manager, you have a better relationship with IC's. Any interest you take in them personally or professionally is magnified simply because you're the boss of the boss. Most of anything that is soul sucking CAN be delegated to your managers. You don't have to solve problems, you just need to make sure your managers know they have everything they need to solve problems. You have a lot more responsibility for the over all direction of a large swath of features. The flipside is that it's pretty much all politics at that level.
• yitchelle 8y ago
  Is that why we see Dept. Managers of the fortune 500s always with smiles on their faces? :-) Seriously, it would be the next phase of a career change. The type of responsibilities are totally different and the problems you are dealing with are also very different.
  • balls187 8y ago
    > the problems you are dealing with are also very different. If you thought dealing with interpersonal conflicts between IC's was fun, JUST wait till you deal with them with your managers.