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Discussion on: What was your mistakes in your career path?

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Tracy Gilmore

The biggest mistake I made in my career as a Software Engineer was to venture into project management.

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Ali Navidi

thanks a lot for sharing! can I ask why?

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Tracy Gilmore • Edited

1) Team leading is fine and more about supporting your team mates but Project management is more about balancing the books (costs and time) and appeasing senior management.
2) The nature of the project meant the role was a complete switch from technical to managerial, which was not for me.
3) After 3 years it took me another 4 years to get back into a technical role. It made me realise how much a love being and engineer.
The age-old lesson: be careful what you ask for.

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Ali Navidi

Wow thanks a lot🙏🏻