Oy vey. I am so there already. All I get to do anymore is review specs and UML, and perform technical project management. I recently watched GalaxyQuest and caught myself musing on the systems integration nightmares involved in building such a spacecraft. My EQEmu tools work is therapy, pure and simple.
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Originally Posted by RangerDown
Yeah, as you go up in the ranks you do less of the "task oriented" stuff and more of the general managing (which involves at least as much people management as it does task/project management). And most programmers by nature are task oriented, wanting to "get r done" and leave the big picture management to others.
As more of my hairs turn from brown to gray, I come to realize you've GOT to take a little time every now and then to do what you enjoy. Be that family if you have any, or hobbies like swimming/biking/golf/CHURN OUT A FEW (dozen/hundred/thousand) LINES OF CODE 
Nice thing about being CEO is you usually don't have a problem getting a personal day here and there cleared with your boss
Later
~RD |