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My personal opinion: After looking at my current manager and previous managers in my previous jobs I decided to never become a manager. Being a manager means
by princevegeta89 3y ago
My personal opinion:
After looking at my current manager and previous managers in my previous jobs I decided to never become a manager.
Being a manager means that I'll have to fill my day with nothing but meetings I cannot skip, keep talking on and on and on, deal with delivery headaches, respond to requests even while on PTO, do a lot of context switching between Slack, email, calendar, documentation, and other things. I used to like that level of being "busy" but now it seems that having my focus time is the best thing ever.
- samstave 3y agoI made the mistake of entering management WAY too early in my career. I wish I had not. it relegated my time to many tasks other than tech implementation. FN having to train CFOs on financially managing cloud environs, managing people, pestering people for status reports, c-level presentations on this that and the other thing, etc... My biggest mistake in my career was thinking I was "climbing the ladder" when accepting a position as a manager, director etc...
- hgsgm 3y agoWere you not climbing ? Was your pay not rising?
- blastro 3y agogulp
- ed_mercer 3y agoI'm not sure there's a better way to climb the ladder though.
- samstave 3y agoi did it too early.
- yCombLinks 3y agoThe point being it's the wrong ladder. I'll stick to the enjoying life more ladder