I recently changed back from multiple years as a manager of software engineers. I did not dislike it as such, but just was indifferent really. There no satisf

I recently changed back from multiple years as a manager of software engineers. I did not dislike it as such, but just was indifferent really. There no satisfaction to be had (for me at least) in people development or "making decisions" or landing features etc. For me the real satisfaction was in coding, but I basically did zero coding while a manager and I miss that. All I did was meetings and spreadsheets and people reviews. Easy, but boring and dull. Imagine how dull it is doing your own career reviews and performance reviews etc - now multiply that up for each person you are managing. Boring boring boring.