Not the answer you are looking for, but still my $0.02. It's pretty negative though, feel free to ignore all this. I have been a freelance developer for over

Not the answer you are looking for, but still my $0.02. It's pretty negative though, feel free to ignore all this. I have been a freelance developer for over 20 years, more often than not hired in a senior position. I have had my share of offers to take up a management role, and I have declined this every single time. I have too often seen developers move up in the hierarchy to become pretty miserable after the dust has settled. Some of the complaints I have heard is how they hate to be responsible for other people's work and potential failures. How they hate to end up doing meetings and more meetings. How they hate to lose the creative part of their job and be left with what feel like only the administration. How they hate to lack clear and exact goals. How they hate having to hire and fire people all the time. And most important: how they hate ending up with much more stress than they had before because of the increased responsibilities. Of course, this is highly subjective; some people do become managers after a developer career, are good at it and love it. These might even end up being the best managers in the field because of their developer history. But I will try to avoid ending up in management as long as I can keep ahead of the kids in my developer role. > found most project managers lives look quite easy compared to what we devs have to do with. I have heard managers say exactly the opposite, so this is probably also a case of the grass being greener on the other side of the fence...