Hi HN,I’m asking for career-advice.I’m 34 years old, live in the middle of europe and work for a software-consultancy at the moment.I am highly gifted, have been programming since I was a young teenager and studied it to a bachelor’s degree. I have 15+ years of experience in designing, programming and shipping projects.In a previous job, where I was more or less alone as a developer I learned to build software that can be maintained alone, using excellent testing, CI/CD, various code-generation tools and so on.I have shipped projects in frontend, backend and mobile.  I have done websites, apps, desktop-applications and libraries.  I also did many opensource-contributions, including to some fairly popular projects.My resume features about 40 projects.I have programmed java for 15 years, Kotlin for 5, JavaScript for 20 years.My issue now is this:I am in a “do whatever someone throws at you” position in a software-consultancy. The pay is excellent, but there is no real career-path and our work is chaotic and of bad quality. We don’t have managerial roles.Right now I’m doing no programming at all.I find that:* When it comes to programming i’m probably 20 times as fast as your average junior.* When applying for jobs I always tend to get stuffed into SCRUM-based fullstack-development jobs, which have the problem that 1. the don’t pay well and 2. i can only use about 30% of my skills. and 3. i find SCRUM bad in most sitations* I don’t think I would have fun managing alone, even though I have people skills. I want to solve complex problems and do architecture. I also like teaching.* I’ve thought about writing books on software-engineering or start my own company.Who will hire people like me?I have real experience in designing and implementing long-lasting well-working software-projects, also in refactoring existing ones, but it seems no one is really interested.I have also applied for a couple of manager positions, but the high amount of technical projects in my resume seems to scare people of. Maybe they don't believe that I really did all that stuff, or they think I'm some kind of nerd who needs to be put into a programming-only position?Does anyone else have these issues?