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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by pkalinowski on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:34PM (#19773852)
Being in management is way different than running your own company.

One side project doesn’t have to earn 200k/yr. you can have 5 of them, each making 50k. Running them as single software company is way less management work than managing your team in big company environment.

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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by scarface74 on Sunday April 28, 2019 @06:11PM (#19774040)
So you’re going to run 5 $50K side projects by yourself, including maintenance, support, marketing, feature addition etc?
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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by pkalinowski on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:14AM (#19786880)
How much maintenance, support, marketing and feature addition is needed?

Let's say you need 1-2 hours a day for every of your product (all activities combined)

Being a manager means 5-8 hours a day managing people, not working on products.

So the time is similar, but your work on product, not manage people. Way different.

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