Dunno, sounds like you're doing something wrong. Part of being a manager is being able to be in a position where your value added is built upon your subordinate

Dunno, sounds like you're doing something wrong. Part of being a manager is being able to be in a position where your value added is built upon your subordinates labor. I.e. you can delegate the actual work items to your subordinates which leaves you with the just work related to the delegation. Do you really miss coding? Fighting with shit tools that are crashing, spending large amounts of time dealing with some messy crappy code that some people vomited. Shit that was never tested and it fails and you have to burn the candle to fix the crap other people made. Spending time solving useless problems like why libpoop.so fails to link against libpiss.so. Fighting with CMake files or some package manager etc. The problem with engineering and coding is that the "joy" of creating software is way too often overshadowed by this engineering busy work (that is only because things in general are so shit) that brings 0 value to the table. I wish I had a career track out of this engineering work and into management...