Hmm as senior techie (i.e. highest non-management) I have reached my peak. I am doing what I want to do!
I do not want management - I am first and foremost a programmer I do not want to stop programming just because some management lunatic reckons I lack ambition. Actually true I achieved my ambitions years ago - I work for enjoyment and money to live no other reason.
Management = increased bullshit, meetings, dumb projects/ideas that have to be shot down (which ironically I can do more effectively from my current position) and no time for the stuff I enjoy.
Fortunately for me my senior management had the brains (and more importantly the experience) to know that I was more valuable where I was. Unfortunately they hired some jerk who talked bullshit and had an impressive resume but ruined our first conversation by asking whether jpeg were 8bit... This from a guy who supposedly worked at IBM and for Prodigy for years...
I walked...
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Hmm as senior techie (i.e. highest non-management) I have reached my peak. I am doing what I want to do!
I do not want management - I am first and foremost a programmer I do not want to stop programming just because some management lunatic reckons I lack ambition. Actually true I achieved my ambitions years ago - I work for enjoyment and money to live no other reason.
Management = increased bullshit, meetings, dumb projects/ideas that have to be shot down (which ironically I can do more effectively from my current position) and no time for the stuff I enjoy. Fortunately for me my senior management had the brains (and more importantly the experience) to know that I was more valuable where I was. Unfortunately they hired some jerk who talked bullshit and had an impressive resume but ruined our first conversation by asking whether jpeg were 8bit... This from a guy who supposedly worked at IBM and for Prodigy for years... I walked...