Charity Majors • 11/23/2019

Questionable Advice: “After Being A Manager, Can I Be Happy As A Cog?”

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An experienced tech professional with 25 years in the industry recounts their two-year journey into management. They describe taking on a dysfunctional team, leading a DevOps transformation, and improving engineering practices, but ultimately finding the managerial duties—like 1:1s, budgeting, and office politics—deeply unfulfilling. The article is an advice column entry where they seek guidance on whether they can find happiness returning to an individual contributor role after being a manager.

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