Let me guess, your boss tried to force you into a lead / staff / management role? Same thing happened to me. As I've gotten older management has been been mor

Let me guess, your boss tried to force you into a lead / staff / management role? Same thing happened to me. As I've gotten older management has been been more insistent on me taking a 'leadership' role. What they don't tell you is this is 2x the work (and the sort of work you hate the most) for ~ 10% more pay. 10% is the carrot. The stick is that they start telling you you're 'top of band' for a sr dev and that they can't give you raises going forward despite meeting and exceeding expectations. That particular shoe hasn't dropped just yet, but when it does, I might have to make some hard choices to keep my career moving forward.