It seems like there's definitely a push to move into management and away from being a practitioner if you've been in the field for a while. I'm not sure how I want to handle this personally - I've been staying in a role where I get to be a mentor while avoiding some of the more official management duties, but sometimes I feel a bit stuck. Curious how others navigate this situation!
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I don't see this al all in my field. I've worked for agencies for most of my software life.
By "agencies" I mean the people who do things like TV ads, branding, websites and so on for other companies, not like a pool of people who get rented out as coders.
Anyway, in agency life there's basically no "progression", certainly not from development to management. You might become a technical lead or something, but otherwise the two skillsets are completely different.
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It seems like there's definitely a push to move into management and away from being a practitioner if you've been in the field for a while. I'm not sure how I want to handle this personally - I've been staying in a role where I get to be a mentor while avoiding some of the more official management duties, but sometimes I feel a bit stuck. Curious how others navigate this situation!
I don't see this al all in my field. I've worked for agencies for most of my software life.
By "agencies" I mean the people who do things like TV ads, branding, websites and so on for other companies, not like a pool of people who get rented out as coders.
Anyway, in agency life there's basically no "progression", certainly not from development to management. You might become a technical lead or something, but otherwise the two skillsets are completely different.