I’ve gone the other way recently, from a senior programming position to management temporarily. Not just of developers but operations management.
I do miss the coding, the building of things and saying “I did that”.
But there is satisfaction to be gained from getting projects started, motivating people, planning and monitoring.
I didn’t enjoy laying off people after senior staff left before they could do it. Finding out your upper management were out of their depth and sinking the company was frightening.
Before you take that management promotion, be aware that everything you guessed about the C suite being incompetent boobs is likely true. And you’ll be expected to fix it.
I’ve gone the other way recently, from a senior programming position to management temporarily. Not just of developers but operations management.
I do miss the coding, the building of things and saying “I did that”.
But there is satisfaction to be gained from getting projects started, motivating people, planning and monitoring.
I didn’t enjoy laying off people after senior staff left before they could do it. Finding out your upper management were out of their depth and sinking the company was frightening.
Before you take that management promotion, be aware that everything you guessed about the C suite being incompetent boobs is likely true. And you’ll be expected to fix it.