When I was doing military stuff I was perfectly happy being a senior NCO. I loved the work, being hands on and mentoring people. My military school history was

When I was doing military stuff I was perfectly happy being a senior NCO. I loved the work, being hands on and mentoring people. My military school history was messed up years ago and I was able to put off any repercussions through numerous temp assignments, but it caught up to me. I was never going to be further promoted and worse they were about to reduce my rank, so I became an officer. In the corporate developer world I am tired of being a developer. I love coding, but I generally don’t like the people I work with. I feel many of my peers are either looking for shortcuts to avoid learning and organizing or they are deeply entrenched in something super narrow and highly defensive about it. All I see is insecurity. Now I wonder if it’s better to move into management where I can better steer through some of the insanity. What I would look for in my next job is how well a given team measures things. Everybody thinks they are great and it’s generally a bunch of bullshit. Example of potential measures: execution time, test coverage, test automation time, operations per second. Measuring is a primary indicator of product quality, but more importantly it’s an indication of team maturity.