> I was fortunate enough to get promoted into a senior management position, where I am mostly focused on tech strategy and not true "developer work" anymore.
1. Did your find doing the "developer work" itself fulfilling in the first place?
2. If given a choice between your management position and the "developer work", which one would you pick?
3. If you could go back in time and redo everything, would you have started off in management to begin with?
4. What would you have done differently?
I ask these questions because I have a hypothesis that you currently work for bad management and that made the developer work really unfulfilling in part because it gave you no to little agency over your impact. By moving into part of the management layer you got some agency over your impact and managed to disassociate yourself from the unfulfilling developer work, but I would like to learn more from you directly
1. Did your find doing the "developer work" itself fulfilling in the first place?
2. If given a choice between your management position and the "developer work", which one would you pick?
3. If you could go back in time and redo everything, would you have started off in management to begin with?
4. What would you have done differently?
I ask these questions because I have a hypothesis that you currently work for bad management and that made the developer work really unfulfilling in part because it gave you no to little agency over your impact. By moving into part of the management layer you got some agency over your impact and managed to disassociate yourself from the unfulfilling developer work, but I would like to learn more from you directly