I have asked this question myself when I was younger, but I never had the ambition for some leadership role or to do something else than software engineering. N

I have asked this question myself when I was younger, but I never had the ambition for some leadership role or to do something else than software engineering. Now at age 63, I am still a software engineer. Last year, I have started a new job as an embedded software engineer at a small company, and I am very much enjoying it, learning new things about electronics, clock domains, and how peripherals work (like I2C peripheral of the ESP32-S3). I am drawing flow-charts for the first time in my career and developing unit tests to make sure the software works as desired. I am learning many new things and I am enjoying it. I am still working on becoming a better software engineer.