Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Jeremy Cunningham's avatar

The challenge not discussed as much, that I have seen, is how to re-wire your brain for a job search. Say you have a career of decades as a coder and have made the transition to management. You now have decades of worthless job search experience. :) No longer can you search for a new role based on hard skills like languages or technologies known. You have to completely start over, on a topic not very widely discussed.

You are expected to just have an extensive network of even more senior leadership people to tap, even though nothing in your history would have required such a network previously. :/

Expand full comment
Abbas Naderi's avatar

Sounds more like an excuse. You can do lots of management tasks with coding. Coding doesn't necessarily mean creating PRs and adding to your project's codebase. Coding can mean automating scheduled calls or meetings or 1:1s, or helping others interact with you more intuitively, or setting up an automated slack bot that does daily check ins.

This post more sounds like you trying to rationalized and justify yourself not coding anymore, while you have inherent guilt about it and feel like you're not being technical anymore. Perhaps do more self-reflection than projection, in that case.

Expand full comment
4 more comments...

No posts