As someone who went from managing three people at a high profile ad agency account to going back to IC. I'd like to say: It's so much more complicated that what

As someone who went from managing three people at a high profile ad agency account to going back to IC. I'd like to say: It's so much more complicated that what this article lays out. I was asked to train three totally green hires after only 3 months on the job myself. It was terrible. And I quit. But I loved the agency I was at. And I might love managing people under more sane circumstances. Now I'm an IC making more money with no reports and I'm back to being someone else's junior. These things move quickly and I feel like keeping your eyes open is more important than placing oneself into a broad category of "career end." It's not as if roles are static and these things are defined as you go. Roles morph and people and projects come and go. Flexibility is more important than having an end in minds. Having an 'end ' is a fools errand. And is what encourages people to sit in shitty jobs because their boss promised them they "get what theyre looking for" just in a year or so.