Congratulations on making the jump to management, which is a socially acceptable job all the way to retirement.
I’m in my 40s and still coding. I wish I had your problem, which I’d solve by scratching my coding itch out of hours.
I’m in my 40s and still coding. I wish I had your problem, which I’d solve by scratching my coding itch out of hours.
One piece of advice I can give is that if you do decide to go down the management path, own that decision and understand what it means. I spent a number of years trying to keep a foot in the code, and it was exhausting because I never had the blocks of time necessary to produce good output, and as a result, both my code and my management duties suffered. Learning to let go was very difficult, at least for me, but when I did, it was better for me and everyone I was managing. My job was supposed to be about making sure other people could do theirs, and as soon as I understood that, I was able to focus my attention properly.