software career management

you should have a strategy for keeping your hands-on skills sharp, because your ability to be a strong line manager is grounded in your own engineering skills. … The higher you go up the ladder, the more money you will get paid…but the fewer jobs there be, and the fewer still that match your profile.

This. It’s a pyramid. And the base has the most roles to pick from. I wish more people understood that. And there’s nothing worth than letting your skills atrophy and being kicked out of the pyramid called your career. Layoffs happen. All. the. time.

_{Quote Citation: mipsytipsy, “Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum – charity.wtf”, 2022-03-24, https://charity.wtf/2022/03/24/twin-anxieties-of-the-engineer-manager-pendulum/}