@HarryChest
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Only the first! I started working at 7:30 and it's past 9 now. Still haven't gotten my first #coffee as I started with a call with knowledge transfer. As I suspected, there's something going on in the background. Suddenly I'll be doing the deploys, I will get a team of coders, I'll have to take care of all the documentation, communicate with the client, ... Does that still sound like a developer's job or am I approaching management waters slowly?! #RandomThoughts #KingOfCoffee
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The dreaded drift into management. Back when I was still a working stiff, (retired now), I could effectively avoid this by being "difficult and unpredictable". Management never knew what would come out of my mouth in front of a client, so I was kept under wraps. Which was fine with me, and worked well for years, as long as my technical skills were in demand. NOT CAREER ADVICE, obviously! And yes, life as a mainframe COBOL programmer started getting less and less attractive as the years went by. So unless you want to go through the painful process of relearning all your techie skills, management may be in your future.
I always avoided management positions and thanks to my lack of a university diploma that was never a problem. I completely understand your 'act' and it's a cool position, but I always could be me and here (I've been in this company for 3 months only) it seems that is not an issue. So my great cover fell to pieces in a way, hehe. No going back to being ... different and I like being me too, hehe
I got into IT, (called Data Processing back then), back in 1980. Most of the older programmers did not have University Degrees, and many of the managers also. As years went by the need for that "piece of paper" increased, until when I finally quit for good two years ago I believed it was a requirement for any IT position.
It's not that I would need an IT degree, just any University degree would be fine, just the education level counted, so I could be ranked as management. So I always slipped through everywhere else. I studied chemistry tecgnology (left after a year), biology/chemistry to become a teacher (left after 2 y), biology (left after 3), and cultural studies (finished, never submitted a diploma, so ... yeah). I have no degree, so I always was a programmer just as I wanted. Now ... yeah.