>That said, if you're going for a straight individual contributor role rather than a lead or manager, there may be questions about why you haven't moved up and

>That said, if you're going for a straight individual contributor role rather than a lead or manager, there may be questions about why you haven't moved up and whether that might indicate a lack of ability to learn new things that might make you a less valuable individual contributor. Continuing as an IC (doing things) rather than becoming a manager where you help people do things indicates a "lack of ability to learn new things"?