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Is Management Really A Way Out?
In the Grand Game it’s easy to think you’re running out of options if you take your eye off the cursor for too long.
In the past we’ve covered some of the nefarious ways that management operatives in the Grand Game of Software Engineering swells its own ranks by assimilating the unsuspecting progressive engineers who have let down their guard and let the hungry (no doubt Windows 98SE running ) managerial nanobots in.
Whether it’s through accidental “promotion” through being rewarded with management duties rather than more pay or via the taking on of what at first seem innocuous HR duties through some kind of misplaced loyalty or obligation (but soon finding yourself authoring PowerPoints rather than slides and attending more meetings that writing actual code) your time as an actual software engineer is inevitably limited.
However there are cases, as your years of servitude in the Grand Game accrue very much faster than your proportional annual leave should do¹, when you may start to think to yourself “is it always going to be like this?”
I genuinely believe that if you haven’t taken the time to move around a bit, experience different companies and different people (even different management styles, if you can call them “styles” that is), and generally put your own needs before that of your employer then you may…
