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Have you thought about switching tracks within technology? Management is a hard tough problem. Becoming a good manager with a technical background can help you
by eshvk 11y ago
Have you thought about switching tracks within technology? Management is a hard tough problem. Becoming a good manager with a technical background can help you solve problems at a bigger scale without having to actually program your way (alone) through the entire thing.
Alternatively, you could get back into school, get a PhD in something applied. Say Machine Learning or Statistics. I would argue a lot of jobs in research labs (Microsoft Research, Google etc) are less about writing a load of code but about solving an interesting problem.
- confusedgeek 11y agoTo your first point (management) - could you tell me more about how or point me to people who've made the transition themselves? To your second point (research lab)- I began my career in research and have worked at two world-class industry labs, including Microsoft Research. You are right that these jobs are less about code - explains why I did well. :) After five or ten years at those firms, you'd be surprised at how many people in those places are truly satisfied with their jobs. At my last job, an industry research lab that I quit to do product development with my current valley company, I couldn't meet a single soul in a building of a 1000 who seemed happy and excited enough to jump in the morning and get to work. Microsoft Research was a different story - but every happy, thriving individual I met there was in love with their field. I was similar for a couple of years, but couldn't sustain that. Wanting to be part of the corporate rat race as someone else pointed out, may have been a factor.