Project management is one of those skills that you need to hide if you want to remain an engineer: being a good PM will just make you nominated to be the PM any

Project management is one of those skills that you need to hide if you want to remain an engineer: being a good PM will just make you nominated to be the PM any time there isn’t one (which is half the time in dev jobs because technical PMs are underpaid and overworked). So be a bad PM if you want to remain a developer. Manage your tasks and nobody else’s, and intentionally so. It kind of sucks, but the primadonna attitude a lot of senior developers take is basically because it lets you escape the PM responsibilities that get you sidetracked from an engineering career track.