Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path
This is bad advice. If you are hitting 40&#x27;s, please do yourself a favor and go into management.<p>Yes coding is fun but,<p>1. Not being able to change jobs because you can&#x27;t invert a binary tree in 20 secs in leetcode hazing, is not fun.<p>2. Being managed by someone a decade younger than you with no family or responsibilities, is not fun.<p>3. Spending your weekends learning the latest JS framework because you don&#x27;t want to be someone &quot;who doesn&#x27;t keep up&quot;, is not fun.<p>4. Being paid less than the lowest grade manager, is not fun .<p>5. And be honest with yourself, do you really need 20 yrs of coding experience to write CRUD apps? What exactly are you bringing to the table.<p>There is no such thing as &quot;IC track&quot; for almost every one of us, please shake yourself out of your delusion.