Another year another job hunt. “That’s a surprise!” said nobody that knows me and my drawerful of leaving cards…
After 10 months of faking it as a Team Lead I decided it’s not what makes me happy and took the leap back into the job market, bad as it still is. Management roles, especially in a smaller organization, are a constant struggle to keep on top of the switching and need to make micro-decisions, handle the stress of demands from above while trying to keep your team happy, and — for me in particular — the frustration of having to delegate all the interesting hands-on engineering work because you don’t have the time or energy to focus on something for more than 5 minutes.
I also really really REALLY don’t like DevOps. If that becomes the norm across all organization’s IT departments I’ll be switching careers for the last few years until I can afford to retire.
Thankfully I was able to secure an engineering contract during my notice period that is much more in line with my skills and experience so I wasn’t in the difficult position of having to post those “Open To Work” articles on LinkedIn fishing for opportunities.
I’ve just started the new role, which even though it’s not that hands-on either, will hopefully give me a project to contribute to for the next few months.
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