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I was always a natural leader up until graduating from college. Had plenty of volunteer leadership roles, but never any roles officially employed as a manager.
by yosito 5y ago
I was always a natural leader up until graduating from college. Had plenty of volunteer leadership roles, but never any roles officially employed as a manager. Then after graduating, I suddenly found I could make far more money as an individual software enginneer than my peers were making in management roles at local companies, so I've been chasing the money for the last decade. But it feels like a bit of a dead end in terms of career accomplishments, and I'd like to shift back into leadership roles, but after a decade of structured roles writing instructions for machines, the relatively unfixed day-to-day responsibilities of management, and strategic thinking about people and more "squishy" things than computers, feels foreign to me. I don't know how to change my mindset back to that.
- faeyanpiraat 5y agoIm transitioning from coding to the squishy stuff, it’s a long hard road. I’m taking one step at a time, my boss being a mentor, giving me responsibilities gradually. The really hard part is that there is a clear success/fail result from running code. The success of an interaction with a client ranges throughout a whole bunch of greys. And without experience your evaluation might be off by 100%.