Stagnating? For me the problem is just to stay at the same height (or repeat that year over) as a software engineer, you need to have quite a decent angle of at

Stagnating? For me the problem is just to stay at the same height (or repeat that year over) as a software engineer, you need to have quite a decent angle of attack, because of all the new technologies and concepts being pushed on us. And then there is tsunami of business-specific knowledge. Almost certainly whatever way you choose through your career, you close a door of some sort at each step, which is kind of a career debt. So the game is predicting what you will regret least in 10 years time :-)