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Every career path in tech:
"At this point in your career, your only possible promotion is to management, where you will stop doing the work you love and use a skill set you don’t have and we don’t teach."
@lobsterofrevenge @jschauma Never heard of it before, thanks for sharing!
@jschauma Always wanting a next promotion is like always wanting the economy to grow.
@paperisiili @jschauma all i want is to qualify to rent an apartment
@jschauma 
Evergreen, Jan!
Propz!
@jschauma sad-starring.
That's part of the reasons I quit the field
@jschauma perversely, perhaps, given their reputation, a lot of major ISPs and cable companies get this right: I worked for Comcast once upon a time, and they had engineer ranks for people who were primarily expected to be individual contributors that went up to the "equivalent to senior vice president" level of pay/prestige.
I topped out as a "principal engineer", otherwise known as Engineer 5, the ranks went up to 9.
@jschauma When I was with HP, they did provide a purely technical track, with no people management involved through broader designs and research projects.
But, yes, mostly that sort of career path either doesn't exist at all or requires other immoral behavior (e.g. software patents) to participate in.
@jschauma ...or you can just become a janitor for our primary development teams. The choice is yours.
@jschauma I'm unlikely to reach this point, but it happened to my dad - he managed to push for a raise (smaller than the promotion pay increase, but more than nothing) instead of never getting to touch code ever again.
@jschauma Not mine! I'm told "good lord, you could never be a manager. Imagine…!?"
@jschauma And "Peter's Principle" reared its ugly head.
@jschauma been there done that
@jschauma counterpoint, that’s usually the bork-brained culture at Bay Area companies. I’ve found it better elsewhere.
@jschauma My current boss is starting to win a fight against this now, at least in our department, in part because of experience he had at a previous company that did this *aggressively*. Like, promote people who were doing their jobs well every 2-3 months, until they were so far up the stack that they would then fail at their jobs and either quit or get fired after about 2-3 years at the company.
@jschauma Easy, you'll do the company mandated "Leadership" training where you'll do an MTBI and read some heart warming management novels that could have been a Powerpoint (or skipped entirelty) while listening to an overpaid "Agile" trainer who will surely NOT teach you how to make a budget, manage a project, or someone's else's career.
