The truth about being a manager
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The truth about being a manager
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Re: The truth about being a manager
#2Missed the part about 100x the stress and politics for 1.2x the pay.
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#3Missed the part about 100x the stress and politics for 1.2x the pay.
That's pretty much the first bullet point
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#4There's a note at the end:
> As always, this blog post is written by me, without any AI, so all errors are my own.
However, the illustrations in the post are clearly made by generative AI, are they not?
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#5There's a note at the end: > As always, this blog post is written by me, without any AI, so all errors are my own. However, the illustrations in the post are clearly made by generative AI, are they not?
Why does AI want to stress me with that cup about to fall off the desk
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#6That's why I rather want to have LLM as my manager and not the other way around. Having a middleman is worse than having none.
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#7Similar when you climb up the technical path as well, beyond staff engineer. It gets lonely, not many peers, not part of a team, you have to be careful about what you say and to whom as your words carry a lot of significance.
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#8This is very accurate. For me personally, I found the difficulties, friction, and stress, have started to eclipse the pros and decided to move back into an IC role after 15 years as EM/SrEM.
The work life balance was also terrible. You really do ruminate and worry about a lot, much of it outside of your control.
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#9Missed the part about 100x the stress and politics for 1.2x the pay.
That's pretty much the first bullet point
It doesn’t cover the reality that nearly all your extra pay in a progressive tax system goes to the government.
UK is hitting 70% marginal rates , or even 1000% for people with children.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's pretty much the first bullet point
It doesn’t cover the reality that nearly all your extra pay in a progressive tax system goes to the government. UK is hitting 70% marginal rates , or even 1000% for people with children.
Dang, where do they pay 2x?