This does not answer your question but it is my experience.

I was an electronics engineer and promoted to manager. I ran five departments and made sure we had a good environment to work in. It was fun – until one day in 1990 16,000 of us got fired.

Imagine 60,000 unemployed electronics engineers in Silicon Valley? About ten years later we had 192,000 lost IT jobs.

After being out of work for 11 months I was hired by a company as a supervisor of an electronics group. Within two weeks I was promoted to manager of five departments.

As a manager I started work at 6 AM and got off at 9 PM. Not much of a life and I did not see much of our two grammar school aged children. Daddy who?

That job came to an end and I came to a realization. There are lots of Indians and not too many Chiefs. The pressure at the management end is not enjoyable if you are in the “wrong place”. So I went into programming and refuse anything to do with being a member of the “management team”!

I think I should consider picking fruit as this valley was famous for that before the electronics days hit us. Now where did they put those fruit trees? Woops they are long gone. In their place we enjoy empty buildings just waiting for the next economic boom in Silicon Valley.

To each his own!

Tom

>Came back to coding after being "promoted" to a management position, and why?