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> late 40s This describes me nearly perfectly. Though I didn’t exactly burn out of coding, I accidentally stumbled upon being an EM while I was coding well and
by vishnugupta 8mo ago
> late 40s
This describes me nearly perfectly. Though I didn’t exactly burn out of coding, I accidentally stumbled upon being an EM while I was coding well and enjoying. But being EM stuck so I got into managing team(s) at biggish companies which means doing everything except one that I enjoy the most which is coding.
However now that I run my own startup I’m back to enjoying coding immensely because Claude takes care of grunt work of writing code while allowing me to focus on architecture, orchestration etc. Immense fun.
- cebert 8mo agoIf you don’t mind sharing, what does your startup do?
- vishnugupta 7mo agoAbsolutely not! I run a business of giving out loan against stocks and mutual funds as collateral in India. Please visit https://www.quicklend.in/ https://www.quicklend.in/ to know more.
- zabzonk 8mo agoWhat is an "EM"?
- supriyo-biswas 8mo agoEngineering Manager (as opposed to people who stick to programming, called Individual Contributor.)
- zabzonk 8mo agoOh, how I hate these horrible job descriptions. But thanks for the info.
- ido 8mo agoMe too, only I'm "only" 42! Got my first job as a programmer at 18 and (in retrospect) burnt out at some point and thought going into managment was the fix.