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What do you do now, and is it better?

• tstrimple 2y ago
  I moved from development to architecture and that helped for a few years. New focus different things to learn. Then the same things started happening there. I moved more into management and was good there for a bit and then same patterns emerged. Jumped to consulting and it’s the same story. Now am exploring more “leadership” style roles. I realize I personally do a LOT better when I’m actively learning and doing new things in a job. If it’s something I know I can do and have done it many times it’s like my mind refuses to engage eventually unless the anxiety overrides it. It’s getting more difficult though. Especially with consulting giving me insights into how dozens of very large technology orgs are run. The problems are almost always the same and it’s rarely technical. I used to always enjoy starting at new companies. But more and more it’s just the exact same patterns and even that is rarely engaging. At some point I think I’ll have to leave tech altogether and explore something completely different. Just hope I can survive until the kids are out exploring on their own so I can take a break on the cash flow demands.