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Some people spend their whole careers like this, there is nothing wrong with it. I personally avoided management for years, until I was offered a lead role over a team of roughly 4 people in Feb 2020. I had been working on the product for years and knew all the ins and outs and had a vision for its future. Cue the pandemic and everyone going remote - and the project ballooning to 25 people across three organizations. I absolutely thrived. I realized I’d done everything coding wise that I was really interested in, and that job had grown stale. I have matured, and found I have more social skills than in my 20s and early 30s. I found that not everyone could or would be interested in driving things where they needed to go to successfully ship a product. You may someday surprise yourself at how your interests and capabilities evolve.


Hell yeah. This is a great response. Lots of positivity and challenging the usual HN tropes! More of this please.




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