For me, trying one of the different paths before me was much better than all the coaching, counselling and mentoring I did before trying. I have a flair for de

For me, trying one of the different paths before me was much better than all the coaching, counselling and mentoring I did before trying. I have a flair for decision making, and getting older it felt like I needed to move away from programming in order to process in my career. So I got into first architecture and project management later into actual management along with a several university courses toward a master in IT management. Turned out I just really like coding, and I went back to doing that. I remember that I had one mentor tell me I wouldn’t like management, and I really should have listened. But everyone else, especially coaches were more interested in making me make it happen, which was fine, and it wasn’t until I actually did it I realised what I actually wanted to do. None of what I did hurt me though, all of it had positive impacts in my life, so my advice is to go for it, and if starting with a coach is what you need to do first, then start there and see what happens.