[ianmcgowan]

I moved from IC to manager to director. Meetings in general are a huge time suck, and by the end of my tenure, I was basically triple-booked for the entire day every day. Every evening was an exercise in deciding who to piss off. And the emails! <Marvin/Android Voice>Don't get me started on the emails! :-) Finishing the twilight of my career as an IC consulting, and it's much better for me.

[beardedwizard]

How did you get started consulting? I'm in a similar spot, been a director, don't really want to go back to it.

[groby_b]

Took the same path, just wanted to commiserate on the emails. It'll teach you where Bezos got the idea for his infamous "!"/"?" emails.

Somebody burn email and chat to the ground, I want to move back to interoffice memos ;)

[aprdm]

Can you share a bit more about Bezos email ?

[AbstractH24]

As someone who has been around for decades I assume, do you thnk anything tech has created has made it easier to manage people or teams?

I'm only 35, but I don't see how it could of. Systems should be able to improve collaboration and alignment, but I don't see many that do.

Or maybe I don't know how much worse it could be.