People are hating on your thread, but I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. Perhaps a bit intense, but it all matches my experience. I wrote ad naus

People are hating on your thread, but I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. Perhaps a bit intense, but it all matches my experience. I wrote ad nauseam about this (see my comment history), but yeah, I am looking to retire asap from a tech career (hopefully before I turn 40), and the thing I look forward to the most is not having to deal with a manager ever again. I have had dozens of managers throughout my career: good ones, bad ones, technical, not technical, etc. I despised interacting with each one of them. At the end of the day, it is not in my personality to be managed. Fortunately I’m paid very well and I am used to live extremely frugally, so I'm quickly racking up a few million dollars and then I’ll eject myself out of this crap. I am still very much in love with tech, mind you, so I might pursue some sort of solo online business to keep my skills up, but never again I will want to be “managed”.