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I don't think that's a quibble. I think that's pretty fundamental. Most people don't quit their jobs, they quit their managers. And to your point, it is MUCH easier to quit than it is to fire someone. Firing someone is generally a painstaking process.
> MUCH easier to quit than it is to fire someone What's hard about firing people? I actually don't know and would love to find out if you could share your thought
Biggest lesson learned: you're no longer the decision-maker on your technical stack. Your team is responsible. Still, you’re liable for the result and its impact on business. That duality is hard to reconcile for former engineer. The solution? Build a culture. Better: create the conditions for a sustainable culture to emerge and persist.
That insight, and many other advices for new managers are compiled at: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-management
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I agree with the overall point you're making. > Clearly, the way to more money in the long run is the manager path even if you find it horrible. Gotta break this down. How much more money would one need to make justify having a shitty time 40+ hours a week?
Everyone's got their own numbers, I'm sure. But if you don't want to be sitting and coding at the age of 50 with 20 year olds around you "changing the world" for yet another VC startup that will fold in 4 years, your best bet is to make as much money as you possibly can as fast as you can and with some smart decisions attempt to retire in your 40s aka the FIRE thing that is popular these days. Misery is subjective bu…
The scam is that every retired person is going to get every dollar they have promised to them and they are still going to wear rags and eat cat food.
This looks great and I would love to get one. I am interested in the Hard Copy only (I can't do ebooks). Is there a mailing list for the hard copy ?
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Right on. I'm 71, self-employed, successfully evaded management, have coded all my life and would never have done otherwise. I have managed fellow coders, but always had my hands in the coding jar. I continue to innovate, and hope to be coding the week I shuffle off this mortal coil.
Wow, what's your stack?
I do old school desktop, C++, some C#, Win32. Just converted to macOS through Qt.
My target market is firmly entrenched in desktop, for technical and political reasons. I have Web-based versions of my app using REST, XML, and JSON, but they only constitute 3% of my sales.
I switched from COBOL and mainframe Assembler to C in 1988.