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Sounds like me 10 years ago, and I wish I took this advice. If you love technical work, QUIT being an exec, a VP, a manager... do the work. You WILL have a cr
by jasonm23 4y ago
Sounds like me 10 years ago, and I wish I took this advice.
If you love technical work, QUIT being an exec, a VP, a manager... do the work.
You WILL have a crazy time getting back into tech work, after 10 years, even if you were hands on the whole time.
Management / CTO and everything in between is best served by people who are technical, and are ready/aware/willing to move into a deeply political and financial driven domain.
I hated it, but it took me a years to really let that sink in and feel it hurting me.
If you can short circuit that wasted time. Do.
- jon-wood 4y agoAbsolutely agreed. I'm currently working my notice after 5 years of technical leadership, after which I've got a job lined up where I can get back to sitting down and writing code. The last few years have been great experience, and I have no doubt they'll make it easier to work with management types in the future through understanding the sort of decisions they're having to make, but I have no desire to play politics for the rest of my life while other people go and do the bits that motivate me to get out of bed in the morning.
- johnnymorgan 4y agoI'm a sysadmin background, did CTO for 9 years and then moved to product afterwards from the knowledge I gained. Being on the other side of the fence has really helped me move around, I still to sysadmin/DevOps type work but mostly moved into product and I've found it really helps. Too many C level see product as only UI/UX and the teams I manage appreciate my understanding of the pain points for everyone