- Nope, I don't want spend my week doing 1:1 with a team.
- 40 years old and I was never so sharp as developer as now. Focused. Precise. Fearless.
- Being the most senior developer in my team, doesn't put me in any special position other than I deliver a lot of good code, I do a lot of devops tasks, i review a lot of PR and people hear me.
- I can scale my work through my peers.
- I trust and respect the managers and architects, because I understand how hard their job is.
- They trust and respect me because they know that I could do their work (and they mine) and the roles are not ranks, but choices.
I don't fear for my job. I know that in the worst case scenario, even earning 50% of my salary would be more than the average of the population and I would still have fun with that. I can work in a niche market like Java.. or hell even Cobol :)