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   by reluctantly 4y ago

   I agree with all your points on management roles and had all the same reasons when I left management to go back to being an IC. I'll be interested to know how it works out for you. I'd posted a while back about choosing to go back
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   by reluctantly 4y ago

   >>If you don’t like that, you can still resist and ask for “Senior” level responsibility but people will slowly lose respect for you as you get older. That’s how humans work: we want the older people to lead us with their experience.
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   by reluctantly 4y ago

   I don't know, but probably not immediately at least given the situation of not having a manager. If I was fully prepared to quit/be fired in response, I wouldn't be asking HN for advice, because quitting is obviously one opti
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   by reluctantly 4y ago

   I was kind of amazed when it had happened again, I was less experienced the first time. The second time with new company I was abundantly clear from day 1.
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   by reluctantly 4y ago

   There is a technical track at my company and I'm fairly high on the IC track. I took a fairly good sized pay cut when I stepped back to IC, which I was completely fine with in exchanged for the type of work. The mentoring is one of the
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   Ask HN: Bullied into managing (again), how to stay on the IC technical track?

   39 points by reluctantly 4y ago|24 comments