Energy levels are going down with work stress and kids. Had tons of aspirations but now not sure. Poll has multiple selections because we have multiple aspirations
Have my own company and was able to work on my day job and side work at the same time, but work got busy. Kid and family steals the rest. Need to stay up to 2am if I want progress.
How do you manage all. What’s your company in
Is your company profitable?
Make money and chill the fuck out.
Is management a good path for low key job and make decent money?
Very. They don’t have to do the actual work. But there’s catch. You may get more stress even without doing anything
Yes. It ic and manager salaries are same. The only thing is next 10y can we survive as IC.
New parent here, son is just a couple of months old and it has changed by aspirations, no more energy or risk taking appetite for startup or high stress. But I still enjoy coding and my TL work (l5 closing in on a promo attempt) and enjoy working 50 hours and have enthusiasm and energy cause I love swe work but time pressure is different now so not sure how sustainable unless spouse takes a break for a couple years….
Same thing - I moved to management 2.5y back. I feel it’s more responsible and adhoc in nature and want to try IC so I feel less responsible and enjoy my alone time working on some code and take some design and complete it. My wife has demanding job and kid need lot of attention. So I am not sure if I want to continue in management or not. I am nearing 40.
Everyone I speak to in my friend circle is on a promo path.
What’s low key job?
Kids was the problem
Sent your kids to coding boot camp and pawn off work to them. Problem solved