Re:Fear of Becoming a Manager
by pmdulaney on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:05PM
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Three reasons to avoid becoming a manager:
1. Life is short; spend your time at work doing what you enjoy most. For some, truly, management is a better fit, but for many others dealing with metrics, personnel issues, etc. are less than enjoyable.
2. Being a manager often puts pressure on you to be less than honest in reporting to higher-ups and other stakeholders. That can mess with your conscience.
3. When you decide to become a manager you have taken a fork in the road. It leads to somewhere else. Despite what the author says, in my experience the manager drifts away from technical work. He or she tends to become a more or less generic manager who is thus more or less expendable -- and someone who can't really return to their former role even if they wanted to.
1. Life is short; spend your time at work doing what you enjoy most. For some, truly, management is a better fit, but for many others dealing with metrics, personnel issues, etc. are less than enjoyable.
2. Being a manager often puts pressure on you to be less than honest in reporting to higher-ups and other stakeholders. That can mess with your conscience.
3. When you decide to become a manager you have taken a fork in the road. It leads to somewhere else. Despite what the author says, in my experience the manager drifts away from technical work. He or she tends to become a more or less generic manager who is thus more or less expendable -- and someone who can't really return to their former role even if they wanted to.