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I’m already at the terminal stage at 42 ;) Happy to go back to dev only roles until I retire. Don’t give a shit about titles or org chart any more, since hous

I’m already at the terminal stage at 42 ;) Happy to go back to dev only roles until I retire. Don’t give a shit about titles or org chart any more, since house paid off last month, no debt, a few hundred K in liquid investments. Only reason I went for those roles was to accelerate this time table. Dev compensation in return for no responsibility over people or project execution or deliveries any more is juuust fine by me.

yakak 5y ago
Curious, have you avoided companies with the new fads? I feel like it would be more draining to be an individual dev in an org of young people doing agile than someone with responsibilities in a place that avoids meetings.. But I have been avoiding directly working in agile orgs, so I could be wrong?
- indemnity 5y ago
  I was in a few startups, but stopped moving around and climbed the org chart with the last acquisition. Kept myself up to date, so I’m pretty comfortable on modern stack infra and backend (avoid front end churn). Agile is everywhere, we work in two week sprints here. But take a more sanguine view towards the metrics, it’s not the end of the world if something slips. I’d love to avoid meetings, my current role leans 70% meetings in my calendar. But I just seem to accumulate architecture, process and delivery responsibilities in whatever team I go into, which is annoying because I love nothing more than head down coding, but I can’t stand things being done the “wrong way” (a.k.a over engineering or under engineering, wrong debt being taken on at the wrong time, etc). And this means meetings and lots of communication.
oh-4-fucks-sake 5y ago
Checking in at 33 in the same boat. I still feel like I have juice in these legs to hit it hard hands-on-keyboard for another decade or two--but I keep getting pushed into a position where I manage/architect-for ~12 devs and growing. If C-suite had its way, I'd probably move full-time into an advisory/admin position on ARBs, OKR initiatives, drawing diagrams ... I feel I'm moving into Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle) territory. I don't care about pay bumps--I just want to work full-time as an individual contributor.

yakak 5y ago

Curious, have you avoided companies with the new fads? I feel like it would be more draining to be an individual dev in an org of young people doing agile than someone with responsibilities in a place that avoids meetings.. But I have been avoiding directly working in agile orgs, so I could be wrong?

indemnity 5y ago
I was in a few startups, but stopped moving around and climbed the org chart with the last acquisition. Kept myself up to date, so I’m pretty comfortable on modern stack infra and backend (avoid front end churn). Agile is everywhere, we work in two week sprints here. But take a more sanguine view towards the metrics, it’s not the end of the world if something slips. I’d love to avoid meetings, my current role leans 70% meetings in my calendar. But I just seem to accumulate architecture, process and delivery responsibilities in whatever team I go into, which is annoying because I love nothing more than head down coding, but I can’t stand things being done the “wrong way” (a.k.a over engineering or under engineering, wrong debt being taken on at the wrong time, etc). And this means meetings and lots of communication.

oh-4-fucks-sake 5y ago

Checking in at 33 in the same boat. I still feel like I have juice in these legs to hit it hard hands-on-keyboard for another decade or two--but I keep getting pushed into a position where I manage/architect-for ~12 devs and growing. If C-suite had its way, I'd probably move full-time into an advisory/admin position on ARBs, OKR initiatives, drawing diagrams ... I feel I'm moving into Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle) territory. I don't care about pay bumps--I just want to work full-time as an individual contributor.