I work in startups. Fighting against becoming a manager is a daily battle. And my job still looks way more managey than it used to. It just sort of sneaks up on

I work in startups. Fighting against becoming a manager is a daily battle. And my job still looks way more managey than it used to. It just sort of sneaks up on you. I used to get to code. Now I spend half my time running projects, pushing back on specs, interviewing people, mentoring juniors, running meetings, discussing team structure, and all sorts of things that aren’t coding.