I work at company (Olo) where at least two people I know of have asked to go back to developer positions from their manager positions, and have done so without

I work at company (Olo) where at least two people I know of have asked to go back to developer positions from their manager positions, and have done so without any negative takes on it. In my mid 30s I had a couple years where I kind of re-invented myself. I had been doing your typical C# backend stuff for like 10 years, just going to work, doing the thing, going home. Then for 2 years I spent some time learning other languages (F#, Nim, Rust,Go) doing coding challenge type things (Codingame, Advent of Code) and doing some open source work and game dev on the side etc. Anyway it all kinda made coding fun again but when I next had a job search it opened a lot of doors. Knowing Rust and F# got me in the door at some very interesting places, and all the "leetcode" challenges made me able to interview very confidently.