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I have to spend all day trapped in meetings and arguing with people and get to spend very little time doing what I enjoy The only "have to" in life is death.
by kirse 4y ago
I have to spend all day trapped in meetings and arguing with people and get to spend very little time doing what I enjoy
The only "have to" in life is death. I've been in situations like you describe as a lead, choose another role or choose a better story for yourself. Lead positions are hard for the very reasons you describe, they don't offer the immediate dopamine hit of typing code into your IDE or lining up commits throughout the day. It does take an extra degree of learned faith to understand your impact on the team. As the saying goes "manage it or it will manage you." Do you block off 1hr on your calendar every day to do things you want/enjoy like coding or skill improvement?
- kodah 4y agoLead positions don't have to be that way. As a lead, it's important to find org structure and management personalities that not only enable leaders but also give them direct domains of authority. A lot of the time when I've read about people disattisfied in leadership positions and the general toxicity around them, it's because the structure and culture remove authority from engineers, proxy it through non-engineers, and create an environment of "leadership through influence", which is absolute junk.
- jacobyoder 4y agoHave worked with this for a while - multiple positions where "hey, just lead by example" which... never works. I was referred to as a "lead developer" on a small team, but everyone would still defer to (or explicitly seek out) input from the company owner. He went through a period of "do whatever jacob says" but that wasn't followed. I would give input, then it would be tabled until someone could 'confirm' with owner.