While we're talking about career paths, I might as well let you in on some secrets about moving from engineer to manager.
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1. Becoming a manager is not a promotion - it's a lateral move onto a parallel track. You're back at junior level in many key skills.
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2. People can and do go back & forth between the manager & engineer tracks. There are good things to learn on both sides.
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3. As levels go up, manager & engineer tracks require identical communication skills. The real superpower on both sides is enabling others.
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4. Small companies often don't need more than one truely senior-level engineer. To stay on that track you'll be shifting jobs more.
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Or going into consulting, or joining a big company where there are many projects that need actual senior-level expertise.
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5. Both code and people require the same thing to thrive: focused, sustained attention. No one does both well.
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Meaning, you need to pick one. If you're still spending multiple hours coding per day,
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There are lots of people who do both well - but serially. Not simultaneously.
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So they CAN do both well, but they can’t DO do both well? :)
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CAN is a serial bus for automotive, what's DO? :)
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