If it's any consolation, this jump between contributor to manager exists in other industries. I have a friend who is a senior ground worker (managing a team th

If it's any consolation, this jump between contributor to manager exists in other industries. I have a friend who is a senior ground worker (managing a team that digs up roads with a JCB/backhoe to put in eg gas mains) and he'd been asked to "go off the tools" to work in head office and was debating the pros and cons.