Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

I was a manager, much of my career.

I hated it, but was actually pretty good at it (I worked for a company that didn't suffer slackers, and they kept me for almost 27 years). I mainly kept it, because I couldn't trust anyone else to do the job correctly.

But my heart has always been in the tech, and I did side projects, that whole time. Since leaving, I ran screaming back to being a technical implementation person, and am almost deliriously happy.

A good manager is actually fairly hard to find. It's been my experience that a majority of highly-talented developers, don't make good managers.